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Labioproctus Green, 1922, The Coccidae of Ceylon. Part V, p. 453. 



type-species : Walkeriana polei Green, 1896, by original designation and 

 monotypy. 



The author placed this genus in the Monophlebinae, allied to Aspidoproctus 

 Newstead. Morrison, 1928: 145, assigned it to group 2 of the Monophlebini. 

 Only the type-species has been assigned to the genus. 



Laboulbenia Lichtenstein, 1877, Schweiz. Ent. Gesell. Mitt. 5 : 299. 



type-species : Laboulbenia brachypodii Lichtenstein, 1877, by monotypy. 



The author presented this name with brief habit notes. Three pages later, in 

 a footnote, he expressed the opinion that this insect was Antonina purpurea of 

 Signoret, a synonymy that has been accepted by subsequent coccid workers. 



Lac Anderson, 1790, Asiatic Researches (Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Trans.) 

 2:359. 



In his introductory letter to the Roxburgh 1790 article describing the lac 

 insect, Anderson said: "Mr. Roxburgh's discovery will bring Lac a genus into 

 the class Hemiptera of Linnaeus." There was no obvious use of the binomial 

 system in this presentation. 



Lacanium Lelong, 1890, Calif. State Bd. Hort. Ann. Ept. for 1889 : 

 193. 

 A lapsus for Lecanium Burmeister. 



Lacca Signoret, 1869, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (ser. 4) 8 : 848. 



Lacca alba Pearson, Trans. Phil. (1794) : 383, was cited as a synonym of 

 Ceroplastes ceriferus Anderson. 



Laccifer Oken, 1815, Lehrbuch der Natnrgeschichte, Sect. 3 (Zool. 1) : 

 430. 



type-species : Coccus lacca Kerr, 1782, by monotypy. 



Kirkaldy, 1906: 249, first noted the priority of this name over Tachardia 

 Blanchard, 1886, and it was again resurrected by Cockerell, 1924 : 47. Cham- 

 berlin, 1925, accepted Laccifer as a substitute for Tachardia R. Blanchard and 

 since then the name has found general use in entomological literature. Lin- 

 dinger, 1933b : 228, pointed out that the names in the Oken Lehrbuch were not 

 consistently binomial, hence not valid, and restored Tachardia for this zoological 

 unit. Later in the same year, 1933a : 166, he reported that the name Kerria 

 Targioni-Tozzetti, 1884, had priority over Tachardia and hence must replace 

 it. Other authors have not accepted this action. The International Commis- 

 sion on Zoological Nomenclature (Bui. Zool. Nomen., 11 May 1954, 9(7) : 193- 

 218) undertook an extended study of the Oken Lehrbuch and produced an 

 informal finding that Lehrbuch volume 3 is not consistently binomial and that 

 its names therefore do not acquire availability from such publication. This 

 seems to confirm the Lindinger conclusion, although the Oken presentation of 

 this particular genus was strictly binomial. It is concluded that further changes 

 in the basic name of the lac insects will not be seriously disruptive since several 

 have already been made (from Carteria Signoret to Tachardia to Laccifer to 

 Kerria) and since many of the species already described in Tachardia have been 

 transferred to other genera in consequence of Chamberlin's work. 



