Kuwanaspidina Explained

Kuwanaspidina is a subtribe of armored scale insects.^{[1] [2] [3]} They feed on bamboo.^[4]

Genera

• Coronaspis MacGillivray, 1921
• Kuwanaspis MacGillivray, 1921 Chuaspis is a junior synonym.
• Medangaspis Takagi, 1999
• Nikkoaspis Kuwana, 1928
• Poliaspoides MacGillivray, 1921 moved from the obsolete Rugaspidiotina^[5]
• Unachionaspis MacGillivray, 1921
• Xiphuraspis Borchsenius & Williams, 1963^[6]

Notes and References

1. Book: 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). 90.
2. Takagi . Sadao . 1999. Notes on the scale insect subtribe Kuwanaspidina (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae). Insecta Matsumurana. 56. 95 - 150.
3. Takagi . Sadao . 2002 . One new subfamily and two new tribes of the Diaspididae (Homoptera: Coccoidea) . Insecta Matsumurana . 59 . 55–100, page 61, 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 . 2 January 2014 .
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.
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. 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.
6. Borchsenius, Nikolai Sergeevich . Williams, Douglas John. 1963. A study of the types of some little-known genera of Diaspididae with descriptions of new genera (Hemiptera: Coccoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 13. 353 - 394.