FAMILY DIOSACCIDAE

General Notes

1. Revisions and redescriptions.

The latest complete revision is by Lang (1948) but Lang (1965) revises several genera and makes other valuable comments.

Wells & Rao (1976) revise Schizopera and erect the genera Eoschizopera and Helmutkunzia. They comment also on Actopsyllus, Balucopsylla, Protopsammotopa, Psammotopa, Goffinella and Schizoperoides.

Marcotte (1974) reviews Paramphiascella.

Paramphiascopsis triarticulatus Moore, 1976.

Hamond (1913e) gives a key to Robertsonia.

Lindgren (1975) redescribes Psammotopa vulgaris.

Typhlamphiascus typhlops P.4 Enp.2 has an inner setae in some populations.

2. In addition to those cited in the keys these species are not included in the catalogues of Lang and Bodin:

Pseudostenhelia secunda Wells, 1971, wellsi Coull & Fleeger, 1977.

Cladorostrata brevipoda Shen & Tai, 1963, longipoda Shen & Tai, 1963.

Paramphiascopsis paromolae Soyer, 1973b.

Eoschizopera marlieri (Rouch & Chappuis, 1960).

Schizopera tobae cubana Petkovski, 1973, meridionalis listensis Mielke, 1975, clandestina brevicauda Kiefer, 1965.

Protopsammotopa wilsoni Wells (1977).

Robertsonia tenuis kieliensis Becker, 1970.

3. The previously unknown sex of these species has now been described:

Diosaccus hamiltoni (M), by Sewell, 1940.

Schizopera chaetosa (F), by Apostolov, 1971a, langi (M) and varnensis (M), by Apostolov, 1973c, gligici (M), by Mikhailova-Neikova, 1966b.

Amphiascoides limicolus (M), by Lorenzen, 1969 (as Amphiascoides debilis, but see Bodin, 1972).

Stenhelia (Delavalia) longifurca (M) by Reddy & Radhakrishna, 1980.

4. These genera and species are inadequately described:

Tydemanella,

Pseudomesochra crispata, tamara,

Amphiascoides proximus,

Stenhelia (Delavalia) inopinata, truncatipes,

Schizopera ungulata, minuticornis, spinulosa, fimbriata, scalaris, longirostris, issykkulica Mauyilova, 1966.