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Ischnaspis Douglas, 1887, Ent. Monthly Mag. 24 : 21. 



type-species : {Ischnaspis filiformis Douglas, 1887) =Mytilaspis longirostris 

 Signoret, 1882, by monotypy. 



This genus has been accepted as valid since its establishment. It is currently 

 placed in Diaspidini, Lepidosaphedina, by Balachowsky, 1954e : 25, 134. 



Ischnofiorinia Vesey-Fitzgerald, 1940, Bui. Ent. Res. 31 : 270. 



A lapsus for IscJinafiorinia MacGillivray. 



Jaapia Lindinger, 1914, Ztschr. f. Wiss. Insektenbiol. 10: 158. 



type-species : Mytilaspis (Lepidosaphes) uniloba Kuwana, 1909, by 

 monotypy. 



Lindinger, 1937 : 186, 188, maintained the validity of this genus. Ferris and 

 Rao, 1947 : 27, considered the name a synonym of Pinnaspis Cockerell. 



Kaicoccus Takahashi, 1958, Univ. Osaka (Prefecture) Bui. (ser. B) 

 (1957)7:3,5-6. 



type-species : Pseudococcus kaiensis Kanda, 1932, by original designation 

 and monotypy. 



The author placed this genus near Dysmicoccus Ferris in the Pseudococcidae. 



Kandraspis Mamet, 1959, Inst. Sci. de Madagascar, Mem. (1959) 

 (Ser.E. Ent.) 11:439-440. 



type-specie s : Kandraspis euphorbiae Mamet, 1959, by original designation 

 and monotypy. 



The author assigned this genus to the Diaspidini but could not associate it with 

 any particular member of the group. 



Karteria Berlese, 1894, Riv. di Patol. Veg. 3 : 66 (footnote 1). 



An emendation or lapsus for Carteria Signoret. Lindinger, 1937 : 187, said 

 "=Kerria Targioni." 



Kermes Boitard, 1828, Les Gallinsectes, in Manuel d'Entomologie ou 

 Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, v. 2 : 171. 



type-species : (Coccus variegatus Gmelin, 1789) =Chermes roboris Four- 

 croy, 1785, by subsequent designation of Fernald, 1903b : 60. 



This presents one of the more difficult problems in coccid nomenclature. In 

 coccidological application, in recent years, Kermes has rather consistently been 

 credited to Boitard, 1. c, where it was presented as one of the three coccid 

 genera considered in this book. This was its first actual usage as a generic name, 

 its prior appearances in literature having been as a common or group name. 

 Silvestri, 1911 : 148, substituted his Kermococcus for Kermes, without indicated 

 reason, and named Chermes vermilio Planchon type-species. Borchsenius, 1960d : 

 26, accepted this replacement as valid for Kermes auct. He considered polonicus 

 Linnaeus, as first-included species, the type-species of Kermes, which made that 

 genus isogenotypic with Porphyrophora Brandt. We do not accept either of these 

 actions, and believe that Kermes Boitard is nomenclatorially valid and available 

 for the oak-infesting species now going under that name. See also under Talla 

 Heyden. 



