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Bigymnaspis Balachowsky, 1958, Mus. Roy. du Congo Beige [Ter- 

 vuren] Ann. (n.s.) Sci. Zool. 4 : 34:2. 



type-species : Gymnaspis bilobis Green and Laing, 1923, by original designa- 

 tion and inonotypy. 



This genus was placed by its author in his Pariatorini. Gyninaspidina. related 

 to Gymnaspis Xewstead. 



Birchippia Green, 1900, Ann. and Mag. Xat. Hist. (ser. 7) 6 : 450. 



type-species : Birchippia anamala Green. 1900, by original designation and 

 inonotypy. 



Green. 1901a : i".)4. concluded that this name was actually a synonym of 

 Lecaniodiaspis Targioni-Tozzetti. The Fernald Catalogue. 1903b: 59, accepted 

 it as valid. Borchsenius. 1959a: 841, 1960d : 223. included it in his Lecaniodi- 

 aspididae and suggested the need to restudy the question of its validity. 



Bodenheimera Bodenheimer, 1953, Istanbul Univ. Facult. des Sci. 

 Rev. (ser. B) 18:131. 

 type-species : Lecanium {Eulecanium) racheli Bodenheimer. 1924. by mono- 

 typy. 



This name, suggested by Green in lit., first appeared in print in the Bodenheimer 

 list of Palearctic Coccidae. 1935 : 240, 251. We consider that Bodenheimer gave 

 the genus status by his inclusion of the name in his key to the Turkish genera of 

 a mealybug subfamily, the Antoninae, even though his generic characterization 

 was not critically definitive. He described the type-species in considerable 

 detail in this paper. We cannot agree with his assignment after an examination 

 of specimens of the species which Dr. Bodenheimer kindly presented to the U.S. 

 National Collection of Coccoidea, but we are not able to suggest a proper assign- 

 ment for the species from the material available to us. We believe that its 

 placement can result only from a critical study of fresh material in all stages. 

 Lindinger. 1957 : 547. claimed that the type-species is identical to Lccanium coryli 

 ( L.) . but we do not think that this can be possible. 



Boisduvalia Signoret, 1875, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (ser. 5) 5 : 338. 



We have found no evidence of type fixation for this genus as established in the 

 Coccoidea. Signoret, 1822 : clvii, noted that he had previously used Boisduvalia 

 for what is currently known as Cerataphis Lichtenstein, an aphid genus, and 

 immediately replaced it, for the Coccoidea, with the name Oudablis with the 

 same included species. In addition, the name was already preoccupied by use 

 in the Diptera where it had been established in 1S30. For information on the 

 zoological status of the unit represented by this name, sec under Oudablis. 



BoisduvalisSnlc, 1944, Acta Soc. Sci. Nat. Morav. 16 (11) :49. 



A lapsus for Boisduvalia Signoret. 



Borchseniaspis Zahradnik, 1951), Ada Faun. Km. Mus. Xat. Prague 

 5:65. 



type-speciks : Aspidiotus palmae "Morgan and Cockerell" [actually Cockerell 

 only |, 1893, by original designation and inonotypy. 



The relationships, according to the deseriber, are with Eemiberlesia Cockerell 

 :iik1 Abgrallaspis Balachowsky. 



