Diaspidina

Subtribe of true bugs

Diaspidina

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Hemiptera
Suborder:  | Sternorrhyncha
Family:  | Diaspididae
Tribe:  | Diaspidini
Subtribe:  | Diaspidina

Diaspidina is a subtribe of armored scale insects.[1] It occurs mostly in the Americas and Africa, with a few species in tropical Asia.[2] In the Americas Pseudoparlatoria is the largest genus, with Diaspis second; in Africa Diaspis is the largest genus.[2] The grouping identified by Balachowsky in 1954 as the subtribe Diaspidina,[3] are now the tribe Diaspidini.[2]

Anderson found the Diaspidina grouping to constitute a clade with core genera: Carulaspis, Diaspis and Epidiaspis.[4] and one of three sister-clades in the Diaspidini, the other two being the Chionaspidina and the Fioriniina.[5]

## Genera[edit]

* Bantudiaspis Hall, 1941
* Carulaspis MacGillivray, 1921
* Diaulacaspis Takahashi, 1942 included by Anderson in the Chionaspidina,[4] and by Takagi in the Diaspidina.[2]
* Diaspidistis Hempel, 1900
* Diaspis Costa, 1835
* Epidiaspis Cockerell, 1902
* Eucleaspis Munting, 1968
* Geodiaspis Tippins & Howell, 1973
* Incisaspis MacGillivray, 1921
* Leptodiaspis Takagi, 2011[2]
* Malleolaspis Ferris, 1941
* Mancaspis Ferris, 1941
* Protargionia Leonardi, 1911
* Pseudodiaspis Cockerell, 1899
* Pseudoparlatoria Cockerell, 1892
* Situlaspis MacGillivray, 1921
* Thysanofiorinia Balachowsky, 1954 included by Anderson in the Fioriniina,[4] and by Takagi in the Diaspidina.[2]
* Umbaspis MacGillivray, 1921
* Yunnanaspis Young, 1986

## Former genera[edit]

* Alioides Brimblecombe, 1958[2]
* Imerinaspis Mamet, 1954[2]
* Parachionaspis MacGillivray, 1921[2]
* Pseudaulacaspis MacGillivray, 1921[2]
* Serrataspis Ferris, 1955[2]
* Takahashiaspis Takagi, 1960[2]

## See also[edit]

* Chionaspidina
* Fioriniina
* Protodiaspidina

## References[edit]

1. ^ Borchsenius, N. S. (1966). Каталог щитовок (Диаспидоидеа) мировой фауны (A catalogue of the armoured scale insects (Diaspidoidea) of the world) (in Russian). Moscow: Академия наук СССР - Зоологический институт (Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences). pp. 28, 80, 150, 159.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Takagi, Sadao (2011). "A new scale insect of the subtribe diaspidina from south India, with Notes on the subtribe (Sternorrtyncha: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. New Series. 67: 41–60.
3. ^ Balachowsky, Alfred Serge (1954). Les cochenilles Paléarctiques de la tribu des Diaspidini (in French). Paris: Institut Pasteur.
4. ^ a b c Andersen, Jeremy C. (2009). A Phylogenetic Analysis of Armored Scale Insects, Based Upon Nuclear, Mitochondrial, and Endosymbiont Gene Sequences. Master's Thesis. University of Massachusetts. p. 10\. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
5. ^ Andersen, Jeremy C.; et al. (2010). "A phylogenetic analysis of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), based upon nuclear, mitochondrial, and endosymbiont gene sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. 57 (3): 992–1003, page 1000. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.002. PMID 20460159. Archived from the original on 29 December 2013.

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