Genus Pinnaspis Cockerell, 1892

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pinnaspis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1892. Museum notes. Journal of the Institute of Jamaica 1: 134-137 [136].

  Type species:

   Mytilaspis pandani Comstock, 1881 by subsequent designation, see Fernald, M.E. 1903. A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 88: 1-360 [242].
• Hemichionaspis Cockerell, T.D.A. 1897. Contributions to Coccidology. – II. American Naturalist 31: 588-592 [592].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Seychelles

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Fiji
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• New Caledonia
• Papua New Guinea
• Western Samoa

Nearctic Region

• Canada
• Mexico
• United States of America

Neotropical Region

• Brazil
• Cuba
• Mexico

Oriental Region

• India
• Sri Lanka
• Taiwan

Palaearctic Region

• Israel
• Japan
• United Kingdom
  • England

General References

Ferris, G.F. & Rao, V.P. 1947. The genus Pinnaspis Cockerell (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). Microentomology 12(2): 25-58 [27] (as Pinnaspis)

Kuwana, I. 1926. The diaspine Coccidae of Japan, IV. Genera Cryptoparlatoria, Howardia, Sasakiaspis, Diaspis, Aulacaspis, Pinnaspis and Prontaspis. Imperial Plant Quarantine Service Technical Bulletin 4: 1-44, 12 pls, 1 fig. [35-36] (as Pinnaspis; description)

Takagi, S. 1970. Diaspididae of Taiwan based on material collected in connection with the Japan-U.S. Co-operative Science Programme, 1965 (Homoptera: Coccoidea) Part 2. Insecta Matsumurana 33: 1-146 [104-105] (as Pinnaspis; description)

Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1988. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Part 1. The armoured scales (Diaspididae). London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 290 pp. [211-212] (as Pinnaspis; description)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		21-Jun-2013	MODIFIED
21-Nov-2012		21-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
29-Jun-2012		29-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)