# Diaspidina > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Diaspidina > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Diaspidina.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspidina > Source revision: 1292489374 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Subtribe of true bugs}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Diaspidina | taxon = Diaspidina}} '''Diaspidina''' is a subtribe of [armored scale insects](/source/Diaspididae).{{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](/source/USSR_Academy_of_Sciences))|pages=28, 80, 150, 159}} It occurs mostly in the Americas and Africa, with a few species in tropical Asia.{{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}} 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,{{Cite book|author=Balachowsky, Alfred Serge|year=1954|title=Les cochenilles Paléarctiques de la tribu des Diaspidini|language=French|location=Paris|publisher=Institut Pasteur}} are now the tribe [Diaspidini](/source/Diaspidini). Anderson found the Diaspidina grouping to constitute a [clade](/source/clade) with core genera: ''Carulaspis'', ''Diaspis'' and ''Epidiaspis''.{{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}} and one of three sister-clades in the [Diaspidini](/source/Diaspidini), the other two being the [Chionaspidina](/source/Chionaspidina) and the [Fioriniina](/source/Fioriniina).{{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}} ==Genera== The following genera are members of the subtribe Diaspidina. * ''[Bantudiaspis](/source/Bantudiaspis)'' Hall, 1928 * ''[Carulaspis](/source/Carulaspis)'' MacGillivray, 1921 * ''[Chilesaphes](/source/Chilesaphes)'' González, 2015 * ''[Credodiaspis](/source/Credodiaspis)'' MacGillivray, 1921 * ''[Cryptodiaspis](/source/Cryptodiaspis)'' Lindinger, 1909 * ''[Diaspis](/source/Diaspis)'' Costa, 1828 * ''[Diaulacaspis](/source/Diaulacaspis)'' Takahashi, 1942 * ''[Epidiaspis](/source/Epidiaspis)'' Cockerell, 1899 * ''[Incisaspis](/source/Incisaspis)'' MacGillivray, 1921 * ''[Leptodiaspis](/source/Leptodiaspis)'' Takagi, 2011 * ''[Pseudodiaspis](/source/Pseudodiaspis)'' Cockerell, 1897 * ''[Thysanofiorinia](/source/Thysanofiorinia)'' Balachowsky, 1954 * ''[Umbaspis](/source/Umbaspis)'' MacGillivray, 1921 ==See also== * [Chionaspidina](/source/Chionaspidina) * [Fioriniina](/source/Fioriniina) * [Protodiaspidina](/source/Protodiaspidina) ==References== {{Reflist|refs= {{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}} {{Cite web | title = ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics | last1 = García Morales | first1 = M.| last2 = Denno | first2 = B. D.| last3 = Miller | first3 = D. R.| last4 = Miller | first4 = G. L. | last5 = Ben-Dov | first5 = Y| last6 = Hardy | first6 = N. B. | display-authors = 4 | doi = 10.1093/database/bav118| doi-access = free | url = http://scalenet.info/ | access-date = 2024-10-19 }} }} {{Taxonbar|from=Q5272072}} Category:Diaspidini Category:Insect subtribes {{Diaspididae-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Diaspidina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspidina) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspidina?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.