Kuwanaspis
Genus of scale insects
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Kuwanaspis is a genus of armoured scales in the family Diaspididae. These scale insects typically feed on Bamboo plants such as Phyllostachys heteroclada (fishscale bamboo) and Pleioblastus amarus (bitter bamboo).[2][3][4][5][6]
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| Kuwanaspis pseudoleucaspis, bamboo diaspidid, New Zealand | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Diaspididae |
| Subfamily: | Diaspidinae |
| Tribe: | Diaspidini |
| Subtribe: | Fioriniina |
| Genus: | Kuwanaspis Macgillivray, 1921 |
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Species
These 20 species belong to the genus Kuwanaspis:[6][1][2][7][8]
- Kuwanaspis annandalei (Green, 1919) (China, India, Taiwan)
- Kuwanaspis arundinariae Takahashi, 1938 (China, Taiwan)
- Kuwanaspis bambusicola (Cockerell, 1899)
- Kuwanaspis bambusifoliae (Takahashi, 1934) (China, Taiwan)
- Kuwanaspis daliensis Hu, 1982 (China)
- Kuwanaspis elongata (Takahashi, 1930) (China, Taiwan)
- Kuwanaspis elongatoides H.u.Tang, 1986 (China)
- Kuwanaspis foliosa Wu, 1986 (China)
- Kuwanaspis hikosani (Kuwana, 1902)
- Kuwanaspis howardi (Cooley, 1898) (bamboo white scale)
- Kuwanaspis linearis (Green, 1922) (bamboo long scale)
- Kuwanaspis multipora Tang, 1986 (China)
- Kuwanaspis neolinearis (Takahashi, 1930) (Asia)
- Kuwanaspis pectinata Takagi, 1999 (Malaysia)
- Kuwanaspis phragmitis (Takahashi, 1931) (Taiwan)
- Kuwanaspis pseudoleucaspis (Kuwana, 1923) (bamboo diaspidid)
- Kuwanaspis suishana (Takahashi, 1930) (Asia)
- Kuwanaspis takahashii Takagi, 1961 (Japan)
- Kuwanaspis tanzawensis Takagi & Kawai, 1966 (Japan)
- Kuwanaspis vermiformis (Takahashi, 1930)
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