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Diaspidina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Suborder
  
Sternorrhyncha

Rank
  
Subtribe

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Hemiptera

Superfamily
  
Coccoidea

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

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

Genera

  • Bantudiaspis Hall, 1941
  • Carulaspis MacGillivray, 1921
  • Diaulacaspis Takahashi, 1942 included by Anderson in the Chionaspidina, and by Takagi in the Diaspidina.
  • Diaspidistis Hempel, 1900
  • Diaspis Costa, 1835
  • Epidiaspis Cockerell, 1902
  • Eucleaspis Munting, 1968
  • Geodiaspis Tippins & Howell, 1973
  • Incisaspis MacGillivray, 1921
  • Leptodiaspis Takagi, 2011
  • 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, and by Takagi in the Diaspidina.
  • Umbaspis MacGillivray, 1921
  • Yunnanaspis Young, 1986

    • Former genera

  • Alioides Brimblecombe, 1958
  • Imerinaspis Mamet, 1954
  • Parachionaspis MacGillivray, 1921
  • Pseudaulacaspis MacGillivray, 1921
  • Serrataspis Ferris, 1955
  • Takahashiaspis Takagi, 1960

    • References

    Diaspidina Wikipedia
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