Diaspidina
Subtribe of true bugs
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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]
| Diaspidina | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Diaspididae |
| Tribe: | Diaspidini |
| Subtribe: | Diaspidina |
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
The following genera are members of the subtribe Diaspidina.[6][7]
- Bantudiaspis Hall, 1928
- Carulaspis MacGillivray, 1921
- Chilesaphes González, 2015
- Credodiaspis MacGillivray, 1921
- Cryptodiaspis Lindinger, 1909
- Diaspis Costa, 1828
- Diaulacaspis Takahashi, 1942
- Epidiaspis Cockerell, 1899
- Incisaspis MacGillivray, 1921
- Leptodiaspis Takagi, 2011
- Pseudodiaspis Cockerell, 1897
- Thysanofiorinia Balachowsky, 1954
- Umbaspis MacGillivray, 1921
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