186 MISC. PUBLICATION 1015, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Spatheaspis Leonardi, 1897, Kiv. di Patol. Veg. 6 : 109, 115. 



type-species : Aspidiotus secretus Cockerell, 1896, by monotypy. 



The author presented this name as a substitute for Odonaspis Leonardi, which 

 he believed to be preoccupied by Odonaspis in Pisces. He was in error in this 

 since the name proposed by Agassiz in 1835 was Odontaspis. Spatheaspis is 

 currently accepted as a synonym of Odonaspis. 



Spermococcus Giard, 1894, Soc. Ent. de France Ann. [Bui. Ent.] 

 (1893) 62: cxcix. 



type-species : Spermococcus fallax Giard, 1894, by monotypy. 



The author noted that in general appearance this genus was a "Lecanite." 

 The name is currently accepted as a synonym of Lecanopsis Targioni-Tozzetti. 

 Lindinger, 1935 : 135, placed fallax as a synonym of radicumgraminis Fonsco- 

 lombe, but Borchsenius, 1957 : 11, retained it, calling the type-species Lecanopsis 

 fallax (Giard). 



Sphaeraspis Giard, 1894, Soc. de Biol. [Paris] Compt. Eend. (ser. 

 10, v. 1)46: 712. 



type-species : Margarodes vitium Giard, 1894, by monotypy. 



The author presented this as a subgenus of Margarodes Guilding. The name is 

 currently placed in synonymy with Margarodes. 



Sphaerococcopsis Cockerell, 1899, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proa, p. 262. 



type-species : Sphaerococcopsis inflatipes Maskell, 1893, by original designa- 

 tion and monotypy. 



Morrison and Morrison, 1922 : 32, redescribed this genus and considered it possi- 

 bly eriococcine. Hoy, 1963, New Zeal. Dept. Sci. and Indus. Res. Bui. 150 : 14, 

 included it in the Eriococcidae. 



Sphaerococcus Maskell, 1892, New Zeal. Inst. Trans, and Proa 

 (1891) 24: 39. 

 type-species : Sphaerococcus casuarinae Maskell, 1892, by monotypy. 



Ferris, 1919d : 249, redescribed the genus, placing it in the pseudococcine group 

 of genera, very close to Antonina Signoret. 



Sphaerocopsis Balachowsky, 1948, Actualites Sci. et Indus., Ent. 

 Appl. 1054: 257. 

 A lapsus for Sphaerococcopsis Cockerell. 



Sphaerolecanium Sulc, 1908, Ent. Monthly Mag. 44 : 36. 



type-species : Coccus prunastri Fonscolombe, 1834, by original designation 

 and monotypy. 



The author established this genus on characters of the male, presenting il as 

 one of four genera into which he divided Lecanium (sensu Signoret). In 1932: 

 47, he reduced its status to that of a subgenus. Schmutterer, 1952 : 552, Borch- 

 senius, 1957 : 322, Gomez-Menor, 1958: 2G, and others have accepted Sphaeroleca- 

 nium as a valid genus. 



