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Chlidaspis Borchsenius, 1949, Akad. Nauk SSSR Dok. (n. s.) 61: 

 T36-T37. 



type-species: Phenacaspis prunorum Borchsenius, 1939, by original designa- 

 tion and monotypy. 



The describer placed this genus close to Phenacaspis Cooley and Cockerell, in 

 the Diaspidini. Balachowsky, 1954e : 369, synonyniized the name with Tccaspis 

 Hall, 1946. Borchsenius and Williams, 1963, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. Bui. 

 13 : 357-358, 360, regarded the genus as valid and belonging to a group of genera 

 comprising Tecaspis Hall, Voraspis Hall, and Rolaspis Hall. They stated that 

 Voraspis adlei Balachowsky and Kaussari, 1955, is identical with the type-species. 



Chloeoon Anderson, 1788, Letters to Sir Joseph Banks, Baronet, 

 President of the Royal Society, on the subject of cochineal insects, 

 discovered at Madras [I-XIV] : 6, 25. 



type-species : Eermes choromandelensis Anderson, 1788, [p. 25], by monotypy. 



According to a microfilm copy of Anderson's letters to Banks, 1788, obtained 

 from the New York Public Library, this name was published by Anderson for a 

 definitely stated genus, placed between Coccus Linnaeus and Eermes Boitard. 

 Although a species name was not directly associated with the first mention (p. 6) 

 of the generic name, the author (p. 25) later listed it, along with several other 

 new coccid names, as "The Chloeoon or Eermes ChoromfcndelensisJ] We consider 

 that the generic name was validly established by Anderson's actions, and that 

 the species name he proposed is to be accepted as its type-species. A plate show- 

 ing illustrations of this and other coccids accompanied the descriptive informa- 

 tion in the "Letters" and this insect was displayed in position on its grass host 

 and also in crude detail. One of the pertinent illustrations, called the caterpillar 

 stage of the coccid, seems clearly to represent the larval stage of some predatory 

 insect, perhaps of a chrysopid. A second illustration, called the fly, supposed 

 to be a male viewed with the microscope, is also highly suspect, as the figure is 

 not clearly assignable to any insect group and its description reports the presence 

 of four procumbent wings. Signoret, 1877 : 612, considered the "fly" a hymenop- 

 terous insect. The remaining illustrations (figs. 1, 3-4) seem clearly to re- 

 present a coccid species and the habitus illustration strongly suggests the coccid 

 currently going under the name Antonina graminis (Maskell), 1897, a species 

 which was described from India as Antonina indlca Green, 1908. We do not, how- 

 ever, present this indication as a firm assignment of A. graminis into synonymy 

 under the Anderson names and consider that the species should continue to go 

 under the name in current use. There seems to be no prospect of reaching a more 

 critical decision on the identity of Anderson's species. 



Chloropulvinaria Borchsenius, 1952, Akad. Nauk SSSR Zool. Inst. 

 Trudy 12 : 299-300. 



type-species : Coccus floccifcrus Westwood, 1870, by original designation. 



Borchsenius, 1957: 203, placed this in his Fulvinariini, Coccinae, Coccidae 

 (str.). 



