AN ANNOTATED LIST OF GENERIC NAMES OF THE COCCOIDEA 10$ 



eandida Targioni as a synonym of Coccus pini Hartig, 1839. We consider Tar- 

 gioni's, 1881: 160, comment, "We are not even now in a position to determine 

 whether a species sent to Signoret by us as type of the genus (Leucaspis can- 

 dida} is or is not distinct from Leucaspis pint described by Hartig," a definite 

 type designation. Burmeister, 1835, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1 (2) : 47, in com- 

 menting on Walker's treatment of a chalcid family, Leucopsidae, stated in a 

 footnote that the generic name, Leucopsis, was erroneously formed and should 

 be Leucaspis. On this fact certain coccid workers have based their opinion that 

 the name Leucaspis could not be used in the Coccoidea because of preoccupation 

 in the Hymenoptera. Hymenopterists, in general, have not accepted this as a 

 valid chalcid genus, and Peck, 1963, Catalogue of Nearctic Chalcidoidea, p. 893, 

 cites Leucaspis Burmeister, 1835, as an invalid emendation of Leucospis 

 Fabricius. 



Leucaspis Targioni, 1868, has been accepted as a valid genus in the Parla- 

 toriini by most coccid workers with the exception of Lindinger, who has 

 insisted on replacing it with Leucodiaspis Signoret, 1869. Lindinger, 1906 : 10, 

 also rejected the use of the Hartig name as type-species on the grounds that 

 three different coccid species can stand under it, and he, 1937 : 188, cited L. 

 signoreti Targioni as type-species for Leucodiaspis, which he, 1910 : 190, substi- 

 tuted for Leucaspis. Later, 1943b : 222, Lindinger reversed himself and cited L. 

 Candida Targioni as type-species. We have not seen the Hartig paper but Lind- 

 inger's 1906 : 32, quotations from it present so inadequate a picture as to support 

 his questioning the use of pini Hartig in place of Candida Targioni. However, 

 the majority of European writers have accepted the concept that pini Hartig 

 was the first name proposed for the insect listed as Leucaspis Candida by Tar- 

 gioni, 1868, and so, by usage, including the latest re visionary work (Balachow- 

 sky, 1953g: 127), Leucaspis pini has come to be the accepted name for both the 

 type-species and the valid species. We believe that no accurate factual decision 

 on this identity can ever be reached, and it seems preferable to fix the Hartig 

 name in this status and to place the name Candida Targioni in synonymy under 

 pini. 



Leucodiaspis Signoret, 1869, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. (ser. 4) 9 : 99 ; 

 Lindinger, 1908, Jahrb. der Hamburg. Wiss. Anst. (1907) 25 Beih. 

 3 : 121. 



type-species : Leucaspis Candida Targioni-Tozzetti, 1868, by substitution of 

 Leucodiaspis for Leucaspis Targioni-Tozzetti. 



This generic name first appeared in Signoret, 1869, in the brief introductory 

 characterization of genera and in the index, associated with Leucaspis. Ac- 

 cepting Leucaspis Targioni, 1868, as preoccupied by Leucaspis Burmeister, 1835, 

 in the Hymenoptera (see Leucaspis), Kirkaldy, 1904a : 257, suggested its replace- 

 ment by Leucodiaspis Signoret, 1869. Lindinger, 1908d: 121, repeated this 

 proposal and subsequently insisted on its acceptance. Ferris, 1936a : 22, 25, 

 rejected this action, considering Leucodiaspis of Signoret a misspelling of Leu- 

 caspis. We agree with the Ferris opinion that it was an unnecessary substitu- 

 tion. Some authors, i.e., Zimmerman, 1948 : 374, and Zahradnik, 1952a : 449, 

 have continued to use Leucodiaspis. 



Lichstensia Fuller, 1899, Ent. Soc. London, Trans., pp. 457-458. 



A lapsus for Lichtensia Signoret. 



