Lindingaspis misrae (Laing) Ben-Dov, 2006

Ben-Dov, Yair, 2006, Taxonomy of Aonidiella yehudithae sp. nov. and Lindingaspis misrae (Laing) comb. nov. with a key to species of Aonidiella Berlese & Leonardi (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae), Zootaxa 1190 (1190), pp. 51-57 : 54

Lindingaspis misrae (Laing) comb. nov.

Aonidiella misrae Laing, 1929: 491 ; Borchsenius, 1966: 297; Ben­Dov & German, 2003: 127. Lindingaspis fusca McKenzie, 1943: 151 ; McKenzie, 1950: 101, 113. syn. nov.

Laing (1929) described A. misrae from leaves of Tamarindus indica (Leguminosae) , collected at Pusa , Bihar, India, and indicated that the types­series was deposited in the Natural History Museum, London ( BMNH). Dr. Jon Martin ( BMNH) kindly searched the BMNH collection and found no syntype slides of this species. Therefore, he sent me dry material from the original collection, which included two adult females and one adult male. Each of these specimens was mounted on a separate slide. One of the females is here designated lectotype and the slide is clearly marked .

Studies of the above­mentioned specimens showed that the adult female of A. misrae is characterized mainly in: body pyriform; prosoma not produced posteriorly into distinctive lobes; dorsal ducts of the pygidium of two sizes; marginal paraphyses of pygidium well developed, extending as anterior as abdominal segment IV. These characters clearly show that A. misrae does not belong to the genus Aonidiella and warrant its placement in the genus Lindingaspis MacGillivray.

Laing (1929) clearly indicated in both the text and illustration that the adult female of A. misrae did not possess perivulvar pores. However, the type­series specimens do possess perivulvar pores in four groups: 8 or 9 disc­pores in each anterior group and 1–6 pores in each posterior group. Further comparisons of L. misrae with other species of Lindingaspis showed that Lindingaspis fusca McKenzie, 1943 , is morphologically identical with Lindingaspis misrae ( Laing, 1929) .

The description and illustration of the adult female under the name L. fusca by McKenzie (1943, 1950) adequately represents the taxonomic features of L. misrae .

Material examined. LECTOTYPE female of Aonidiella misrae Laing (here designated): INDIA, Bihar, Pusa, on Tamarindus indica ; additional female and one adult male (BMNH). Two female paratypes of Lindingaspis fusca McKenzie, 1943 , INDIA, Maharashtra, Poona [=Pune], on sago palm, Cycas circinalis , collected 1 June, 1932, Harold Compere (Bohart Museum of Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, USA).