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Ceroplasses Sankaran, 1954, Jour. Sci. Res. Benares Hindu Univ. 

 5 : 100. 

 A lapsus for Ceroplastes Gray. 



Ceroplastes Gray, 1828, Spicilegia Zoologica, pt. I, p. 7. 



type-species: Coccus {Ceroplastes) chilcnsis Gray, 1827, by subsequent des- 

 ignation of Fernald, 1903b : 147 (the first we have found) . 



This is a well known, widely distributed genus of the Coccidae (str.) which 

 probably will be divided into several segregates beyond the two already pro- 

 posed by Cockerell, 1910a : 76, when the species currently assigned to it have 

 been given critical study. 



Ceroplastidia Cockerell, 1010, Canad. Ent. 42 : 76. 



type-species : Ceroplastes bruneri T. D. A. and W. P. Cockerell, 1902, by 

 original designation. 



This was established as a subgenus on the basis of growth habit, for species 

 that crowd closely together on the host twig, produce solid masses of covering 

 wax, and have the bodies vertically distorted. Morrison, 1919: 76, commented 

 on this genus, noting its similarity to the genus Gascardia Targioni-Tozzetti, 1893, 

 and its doubtful distinction from Ceroplastes Gray, sens. lat. 



Ceroplastina Cockerell, 1910, Canad. Ent. 42 : 76. 



type-species : Ceroplastes lahillei Cockerell, 1910, by original designation. 



This was established as a subgenus by its describer on the basis of the unusual 

 development of the waxy covering of the body of the adult female. 



Ceroplastodes Cockerell, 1893, Entomologist 26 : 350. 



type- specie s : FaArmairia (subg. Ceroplastodes) nivea Cockerell, 1893, by 

 original designation and monotypy. 



Cockerell, 1902n : 194, concluded that nivea must be a synonym of fceewtUSpvis 

 dugesii "Lichtenstein" Signoret, 1886a: xxxix, on the basis of his examination 

 of topotype material sent to him by Duges, who had forwarded the material of 

 duf/csii to Lichtenstein. Subsequently (Fernald, 1903b: 164; Steinweden, 1929: 

 232; Lindinger, 1937: 181) it has been customary to cite dugesii as the type of 

 the genus Ceroplastodes. It seems probable that this synonymy, which has been 

 accepted, is valid but it has not been based on a direct comparison of the typos 

 of the two species. The genus has been assigned to the '"glassy" section of the 

 Coccidae (str.), but seems not to have received critical restudy in recenl years. 

 There is doubt if the Indo-Malayan and Anst ralian species assigned here actually 

 associate generic-ally with the North American inclusions. 



Ceroplastus u '&ray'^ West wood, 1840, An Introduction to the Modern 

 ( lassilicat ion of Insects 2 : 449. 



In the Westwood context this appears to be a misspelling of Ceroplastes Gray. 

 The name was used in Coleoptera in 1883, according to Xcave, 1939, Xonien. 

 Zool. I : 648. 



