{{short description|Genus of scale insects}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Diaspis echinocacti - inat 245952981.jpg | image_caption = ''Diaspis echinocacti'', prickly pear scale, New Mexico | taxon = Diaspis | authority = Costa, 1828 }} thumb|''Diaspis boisduvalii'', boisduval scale, Australia thumb|''Diaspis manzanitae'', Manzanita Scale, California

'''''Diaspis''''' is a genus in the armored scale insect family Diaspididae. There are more than 50 described species in ''Diaspis''.<ref name=gbif/><ref name=catlife/><ref name=Normark2019/><ref name=GarcíaMorales/>

==Species== These 57 species belong to the genus ''Diaspis'':<ref name=GarcíaMorales/> {{Div col|colwidth=29em}} * ''Diaspis aequalis'' <small>Munting, 1967</small> * ''Diaspis africana'' <small>Lindinger, 1909</small> * ''Diaspis alba'' <small>Fonseca, 1969</small> * ''Diaspis amantei'' <small>Fonseca, 1973</small> * ''Diaspis antiquorum'' <small>Green, 1922</small> * ''Diaspis arundinariae'' <small>(Tippins & Howell, 1973)</small> * ''Diaspis barrancorum'' <small>Lindinger, 1911</small> * ''Diaspis bicolor'' <small>Laing, 1932</small> * ''Diaspis boisduvalii'' <small>Signoret, 1869</small> (boisduval scale) * ''Diaspis brevinatis'' <small>Ferris, 1941</small> * ''Diaspis bromeliae'' <small>(Kerner, 1778)</small> (pineapple scale) * ''Diaspis carissae'' <small>Hall, 1928</small> * ''Diaspis carmanica'' <small>Davatchi & Balachowsky, 1956</small> * ''Diaspis casuarinae'' <small>Williams & Watson, 1988</small> * ''Diaspis chilensis'' <small>Cockerell, 1895</small> * ''Diaspis coccois'' <small>Lichtenstein, 1882</small> (cocos scale) * ''Diaspis colvei'' <small>Penzig, 1887</small> * ''Diaspis conocarpi'' <small>McKenzie, 1947</small> * ''Diaspis cuneata'' <small>Vernalha et al., 1965</small> * ''Diaspis delottoi'' <small>Munting, 1967</small> * ''Diaspis diacanthi'' <small>Rungs, 1942</small> * ''Diaspis digna'' <small>Hoke, 1928</small> * ''Diaspis diospyri'' <small>Ferris, 1937</small> * ''Diaspis echinocacti'' <small>(Bouché, 1833)</small> (prickly pear scale) * ''Diaspis elaeidis'' <small>Munting, 1969</small> * ''Diaspis ferrisi'' <small>McKenzie, 1947</small> * ''Diaspis flava'' <small>Hempel, 1919</small> * ''Diaspis fraxini'' <small>Ferris, 1937</small> * ''Diaspis gilloglyi'' <small>McKenzie, 1963</small> (Gillogly scale) * ''Diaspis helveola'' <small>Laing, 1932</small> * ''Diaspis hererina'' <small>Munting, 1969</small> * ''Diaspis iodinae'' <small>Boratynski, 1968</small> * ''Diaspis maculata'' <small>Diaspis maculata (Cockerell, 1898)</small> * ''Diaspis manzanitae'' <small>(Whitney, 1913)</small> (manzanita scale) * ''Diaspis mihiriya'' <small>Green, 1922</small> * ''Diaspis minensis'' <small>Hempel, 1918</small> * ''Diaspis miranda'' <small>(Cockerell, 1898)</small> * ''Diaspis muntingii'' <small>Fonseca, 1973</small> * ''Diaspis myristicae'' <small>(Rutherford, 1914)</small> * ''Diaspis obliqua'' <small>Costa, 1829</small> * ''Diaspis parasiti'' <small>McKenzie, 1947</small> (mistletoe scale) * ''Diaspis parva'' <small>Lindinger, 1910</small> * ''Diaspis parvinatis'' <small>Ferris, 1941</small> * ''Diaspis paulista'' <small>Lepage, 1942</small> * ''Diaspis pelargonii'' <small>Cockerell, 1892</small> * ''Diaspis portulacariae'' <small>Williams, 1955</small> * ''Diaspis quercus'' <small>Moghaddam, 2021</small> * ''Diaspis radicicola'' <small>Ferris, 1937</small> * ''Diaspis refertinatis'' <small>Ferris, 1941</small> * ''Diaspis simmondsiae'' <small>Ferris, 1921</small> (jojoba scale) * ''Diaspis stilosa'' <small>Lindinger, 1909</small> * ''Diaspis subregularis'' <small>Hall, 1929</small> * ''Diaspis syriaca'' <small>Lindinger, 1912</small> * ''Diaspis texensis'' <small>(Cockerell, 1896)</small> * ''Diaspis toumeyi'' <small>Cockerell, 1895</small> * ''Diaspis townsendi'' <small>Cockerell, 1899</small> * ''Diaspis uniglandulosa'' <small>Balachowsky & Ferrero, 1967</small> {{Div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=GBIF, ''Diaspis'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2087402 | access-date=2025-01-25 }}</ref>

<ref name=catlife> {{Cite web| title=Catalogue of Life, ''Diaspis'' Costa, 1828 | url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/C9HTR | access-date=2025-01-25 }}</ref>

<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| issue = 1 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.4616.1.1| doi-access = free | pmid = 31716328 | url = https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4616.1.1| access-date = 2025-01-03 | url-access = subscription}}</ref>

<ref name=GarcíaMorales> {{Cite journal | 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. | journal = Database | date = 2016 | display-authors = 4 | doi = 10.1093/database/bav118| doi-access = free | pmid = 26861659 | url = http://scalenet.info/| access-date = 2024-10-19 | pmc = 4747323}}</ref> }}

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Category:Sternorrhyncha genera Category:Diaspidini

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