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Vea IM, Gwiazdowski RA, Normark BB. Corroborating molecular species discovery: Four new pine-feeding species of Chionaspis (Hemiptera, Diaspididae). Zookeys. 2013;(270):37-58doi: 10.3897/zookeys.270.2910.
Vea, I. M., Gwiazdowski, R. A., & Normark, B. B. (2013). Corroborating molecular species discovery: Four new pine-feeding species of Chionaspis (Hemiptera, Diaspididae). ZooKeys, (270), 37-58. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.270.2910
Vea, Isabelle M, et al. "Corroborating molecular species discovery: Four new pine-feeding species of Chionaspis (Hemiptera, Diaspididae)." ZooKeys vol. ,270 (2013): 37-58. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.270.2910
Vea IM, Gwiazdowski RA, Normark BB. Corroborating molecular species discovery: Four new pine-feeding species of Chionaspis (Hemiptera, Diaspididae). Zookeys. 2013 Feb 18;(270):37-58. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.270.2910. Print 2013. PMID: 23717184; PMCID: PMC3652468.
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Zookeys. 2013 Feb 18;(270):37-58. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.270.2910. Print 2013.

Corroborating molecular species discovery: Four new pine-feeding species of Chionaspis (Hemiptera, Diaspididae).

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Isabelle M Vea, Rodger A Gwiazdowski, Benjamin B Normark

Affiliations

  1. Richard Gilder Graduate School, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA.

PMID: 23717184 PMCID: PMC3652468 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.270.2910

Abstract

The genus Chionaspis (Hemiptera, Diaspididae) includes two North American species of armored scale insects feeding on Pinaceae: Chionaspis heterophyllae Cooley, and Chionaspis pinifoliae (Fitch). Despite the economic impact of conifer-feeding Chionaspis on horticulture, the species diversity in this group has only recently been systematically investigated using samples from across the group's geographic and host range. This paper provides morphological recognition characters for four new species that were recently hypothesized to exist on the basis of molecular evidence. The new species, here described, are Chionaspis brachycephalon Vea sp. n., Chionaspis caudata Vea sp. n., Chionaspis sonorae Vea sp. n. and Chionaspis torreyanae Vea sp. n.  One of the new species, Chionaspis caudata Vea, has a gland spine at the apex of the pygidium, between the median lobes, unlike any other species of Chionaspis. An identification key to the species of Chionaspis feeding on pine in North America is provided.

Keywords: Armored scale insects; Diaspidinae; Diaspidini; North America; Pinus; cryptic species; endemic

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