Diaspidina Explained

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. The grouping identified by Balachowsky in 1954 as the subtribe Diaspidina,^[3] are now the tribe Diaspidini.

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

• 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

See also

• Chionaspidina
• Fioriniina
• Protodiaspidina

Notes and References

1. Book: Nikolai Borchsenius

   . Borchsenius, N. S.. Nikolai Borchsenius . 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). 28, 80, 150, 159.

2. Takagi . Sadao. Sadao Takagi . 2011. A new scale insect of the subtribe diaspidina from south India, with Notes on the subtribe (Sternorrtyncha: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). Insecta Matsumurana . New Series. 67. 41 - 60.
3. Book: Balachowsky, Alfred Serge. 1954. Les cochenilles Paléarctiques de la tribu des Diaspidini. French. Paris. Institut Pasteur.
4. Book: 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. 10. https://web.archive.org/web/20131230233719/http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1415&context=theses. 30 December 2013. live.
5. 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, page 1000. 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.