ASTEROLECANIIDAE

Franco, José Carlos, Russo, Agatino & Marotta, Salvatore, 2011, An annotated checklist of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of Portugal, including Madeira and Azores Archipelagos, Zootaxa 3004, pp. 1-32 : 3-4

FAMILY ASTEROLECANIIDAE

● Asterodiaspis bella ( Russell, 1941)

Distribution: Mainland

Comments: first record; collected ( 28-09-2007) and identified by Giuseppina Pellizzari on Quercus suber near Palmela, in the A2 highway between Lisbon and Setúbal.

Asterodiaspis ilicicola (Targioni Tozzetti, 1888)

Distribution: Mainland

References: Neves (1954b).

Asterodiaspis quercicola (Bouché, 1851)

Distribution: Mainland

References: Kozár & Franco (1995)

Comments: Podsiadlo (1990) and Stumpf & Lambdin (2006) considered Asterodiaspis quercicola and A. variolosa to be synonyms, but this is not accepted by Ben-Dov (2006).

Asterodiaspis variolosa (Ratzeburg, 1870)

Distribution: Mainland and Madeira

References: Lindinger (1912), Green (1923), Neves (1936a, 1936c, 1950, 1954 b), Balachowsky (1938), Russell (1941), Seabra (1942), Guimarães (1973), Vieira et al. (1983), Kozár & Franco (1995), Borges et al. (2008), Ben-Dov et al. (2010), Danzig & Watson (2010).

Asterolecanium conimbrigensis Saraiva, 1936

Distribution: Mainland

References: Saraiva (1936b), Russell (1941), Seabra (1941), Neves (1950), Guimarães (1973), Ben-Dov et al. (2010), Danzig & Watson (2010).

Asterolecanium epidendri (Bouché, 1844)

Distribution: Mainland

References: Russel (1941), Borchsenius (1960), Ben-Dov et al. (2010), Danzig & Watson (2010).

Asterolecanium rehi Rübsaamen, 1902

Distribution: Madeira

References: Rübsaamen (1902), Sanders (1906), Green (1923), Russell (1941), Vieira et al. (1983), Borges et al. (2008), Ben-Dov et al. (2010), Danzig & Watson (2010).

Asterolecanium seabrai Saraiva, 1936

Distribution: Mainland

References: Saraiva (1936a), Russell (1941), Seabra (1941), Neves (1950), Guimarães (1973), Ben-Dov et al. (2010), Danzig & Watson (2010).

Bambusaspis bambusae (Boisduval, 1869)

Distribution: Mainland, Azores and Madeira

References: Lindinger (1912), Balachowsky (1938), Vieira et al. (1983), Borges et al. (2008), Ben-Dov et al. (2010), Danzig & Watson (2010), Pellizzari & Germain (2010).

Planchonia arabidis Signoret, 1877

Distribution: Mainland and Madeira

References: Lindinger (1912), Green (1923), Balachowsky (1938), Guimarães (1973), Vieira et al. (1983), Borges et al. (2008), Danzig & Watson (2010).

Planchonia fimbriata (Boyer de Fonscolombe, 1834)

Distribution: Mainland and Madeira

Comments: this species is not clearly known, some authors use it as synonym; the type material is probably lost

References: Lindinger (1912), Green (1923), Guimarães (1973), Vieira et al. (1983).

Planchonia zanthenes ( Russell, 1941)

Distribution: Madeira

References: Vieira et al. (1983), Borges et al. (2008).