Chionaspidina Explained

Chionaspidina is a subtribe of armored scale insects established by Borchenius.^[1] But unlike many of the subtribes recognized by Borchenius, this one was found to be morphologically valid by Takagi.^{[2] [3]} Similarly, in molecular analysis, Andersen et al. found a clade roughly corresponding to the subtribe Chionaspidina.^[4]

Geographical sampling and analysis indicated a number of unnamed species in the genus Chionaspis and by inference in the Chionaspidina.^[5]

Genera

• Afiorinia
• Albastaspis
• Amphisoma
• Aulacaspis
• Balachowskiella
• Cameronaspis
• Chionandaspis
• Chionaspis
• Cooleyaspis
• Cupidaspis
• Damaia
• Diaulacaspis
• Duplachionaspis
• Duplaspis
• Eudinaspis
• Fijifiorinia
• Greenaspis
• Guineaspis
• Guizhoaspis
• Haliaspis
• Hemaspidis
• Hybridaspis
• Inchoaspis
• Kuchinaspis
• Laingaspis
• Larutaspis
• Ledaspis
• Lineaspis
• Madagaspis
• Magnospinus
• Marchalaspis
• Miscanthaspis
• Myrtaspis
• Narayanaspis
• Neochionaspis
• Neoquernaspis
• Phenacaspis
• Pinangaspis
• Pinnaspis
• Poliaspis
• Proceraspis
• Quernaspis
• Semonggokia
• Serrachionaspis
• Shansiaspis
• Sinoquernaspis
• Tenuiaspis
• Trichomytilus
• Unaspis

Notes and References

1. Book: Борхсениус, Н. С. (Borchsenius), Н. С. (N. S.) . 1966 . Каталог щитовок (Диаспидоидеа) мировой фауны (A catalogue of the armoured scale insects (Diaspidoidea) of the world). Russian. Moscow . Академия наук СССР  - Зоологический институт (Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences). 93.
2. Takagi . Sadao . 2002 . One new subfamily and two new tribes of the Diaspididae (Homoptera: Coccoidea) . Insecta Matsumurana . 59 . 55–100, page 76 (Table 1) . https://web.archive.org/web/20131228153552/http://eprints2008.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/9912/1/59_p55-100.pdf . 28 December 2013 . dead . 1 January 2014 .
3. Takagi. Sadao. 2007. Two new genera of the Diaspidini from the Indian subcontinent (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). Insecta Matsumurana . New Series. 63. 67 - 83. https://web.archive.org/web/20140101182707/http://eprints2008.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/20009/1/Insecta%2063-67.pdf. 1 January 2014. dead. 1 January 2014.
4. Andersen, Jeremy C.. 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20131229213449/http://www.researchgate.net/publication/237012202_Andersen_et_al_2010_Diaspididae_phylogeny. 29 December 2013. live. 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.002. 20460159. etal.
5. Gwiazdowski, Rodger A. . Vea, Isabelle M. . Andersen, Jeremy C. . Normark, Benjamin B. . 2011. Discovery of cryptic species among North American pine-feeding Chionaspis scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104. 1. 47 - 62. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01716.x. free. Abstract