{{Short description|Subtribe of true bugs}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Diaspidina | taxon = Diaspidina}}
'''Diaspidina''' is a subtribe of armored scale insects.<ref name="Borchsenius">{{Cite book |author = Borchsenius, N. S.|authorlink=Nikolai Borchsenius |year = 1966 | title =Каталог щитовок (Диаспидоидеа) мировой фауны (A catalogue of the armoured scale insects (Diaspidoidea) of the world)|language=Russian|location=Moscow | publisher = Академия наук СССР – Зоологический институт (Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences)|pages=28, 80, 150, 159}}</ref> It occurs mostly in the Americas and Africa, with a few species in tropical Asia.<ref name="Takagi-2011">{{Cite journal | last = Takagi | first = Sadao|authorlink=Sadao Takagi |year=2011| title =A new scale insect of the subtribe diaspidina from south India, with Notes on the subtribe (Sternorrtyncha: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)|journal=Insecta Matsumurana |series=New Series|volume=67| pages=41–60|url=http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/47453/2/04%20Takagi.pdf}}</ref> In the Americas ''Pseudoparlatoria'' is the largest genus, with ''Diaspis'' second; in Africa ''Diaspis'' is the largest genus.<ref name="Takagi-2011" /> The grouping identified by Balachowsky in 1954 as the subtribe Diaspidina,<ref>{{Cite book|author=Balachowsky, Alfred Serge|year=1954|title=Les cochenilles Paléarctiques de la tribu des Diaspidini|language=French|location=Paris|publisher=Institut Pasteur}}</ref> are now the tribe Diaspidini.<ref name="Takagi-2011" />
Anderson found the Diaspidina grouping to constitute a clade with core genera: ''Carulaspis'', ''Diaspis'' and ''Epidiaspis''.<ref name="Andersen-2009">{{Cite book|author=Andersen, Jeremy C.|year=2009|title=A Phylogenetic Analysis of Armored Scale Insects, Based Upon Nuclear, Mitochondrial, and Endosymbiont Gene Sequences|series=Master's Thesis|publisher=University of Massachusetts|page=10|url=http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1415&context=theses|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230233719/http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1415&context=theses|archive-date=30 December 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> and one of three sister-clades in the Diaspidini, the other two being the Chionaspidina and the Fioriniina.<ref name="Andersen-2010">{{Cite journal|author=Andersen, Jeremy C.|year=2010|title=A phylogenetic analysis of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), based upon nuclear, mitochondrial, and endosymbiont gene sequences|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution|volume=57|issue=3|pages=992–1003, page 1000|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237012202|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229213449/http://www.researchgate.net/publication/237012202_Andersen_et_al_2010_Diaspididae_phylogeny|archive-date=29 December 2013|url-status=live|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.002|pmid=20460159|display-authors=etal}}</ref> ==Genera== The following genera are members of the subtribe Diaspidina.<ref name=Normark2019/><ref name=GarcíaMorales/> * ''Bantudiaspis'' <small>Hall, 1928</small> * ''Carulaspis'' <small>MacGillivray, 1921</small> * ''Chilesaphes'' <small>González, 2015</small> * ''Credodiaspis'' <small>MacGillivray, 1921</small> * ''Cryptodiaspis'' <small>Lindinger, 1909</small> * ''Diaspis'' <small>Costa, 1828</small> * ''Diaulacaspis'' <small>Takahashi, 1942</small> * ''Epidiaspis'' <small>Cockerell, 1899</small> * ''Incisaspis'' <small>MacGillivray, 1921</small> * ''Leptodiaspis'' <small>Takagi, 2011</small> * ''Pseudodiaspis'' <small>Cockerell, 1897</small> * ''Thysanofiorinia'' <small>Balachowsky, 1954</small> * ''Umbaspis'' <small>MacGillivray, 1921</small>
==See also== * Chionaspidina * Fioriniina * Protodiaspidina
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Normark2019> {{Cite journal | title = Phylogeny and classification of armored scale insects (Hemiptera:Coccomorpha: Diaspididae) | year = 2019 | last1 = Normark | first1 = Benjamin B.| last2 = Okusu | first2 = Akiko| last3 = Morse | first3 = Geoffrey E.| last4 = Peterson | first4 = Daniel A. | last5 = Itioka | first5 = Takao| last6 = Schneider | first6 = Scott A. | display-authors = 4 | journal = Zootaxa| volume = 4616| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.4616.1.1| doi-access = free | url = https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4616.1.1 | access-date = 2025-01-03 | url-access = subscription}}</ref>
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Category:Diaspidini Category:Insect subtribes
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