Genus Chionaspis Signoret, 1869

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• Chionaspis Signoret, V. 1869. Essai sur les cochenilles ou gallinsectes (Homoptères – Coccides) 5e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 9: 431-452 [442].

  Type species:

   Coccus salicis Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Cooley, R.A. 1899. The coccid genera Chionaspis and Hemichionaspis. Special Bulletin Hatch Experiment Station. 57 pp. 9 pls [3, 9-10]

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• New Zealand

Nearctic Region

• United States of America

Neotropical Region

• Brazil
• Cuba

Oriental Region

• Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

General References

Ferris, G.F. 1955. The genus Phenacaspis Cooley and Cockerell. Part I. (Insecta: Homoptera: Coccoidea). Microentomology 20(3): 41-82 [42-43] (as Chionaspis; description)

Froggatt, W.W. 1914. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia (Part I). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 25: 983-989 [985-986] (as Chionaspis; description)

Takagi, S. 1970. Diaspididae of Taiwan based on material collected in connection with the Japan-U.S. Co-operative Science Programme, 1965 (Homoptera: Coccoidea) Part 2. Insecta Matsumurana 33: 1-146 [69-70] (as Chionaspis; description)

Takagi, S. & Kawai, S. 1967. The genera Chionaspis and Pseudaulacaspis with a criticism on Phenacaspis (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Insecta Matsumurana 30(1): 29-43 [31-33] (as Chionaspis; description)