{{short description|Genus of scale insects}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Kuwanaspis pseudoleucaspis - inat 248178520.jpg | image_caption = ''Kuwanaspis pseudoleucaspis'', bamboo diaspidid, New Zealand | taxon = Kuwanaspis | authority = Macgillivray, 1921 | synonyms_ref = <ref name=Takagi1999/> | synonyms = {{genus_list | Chuaspis | Tao & Wong, 1982 }} | display_parents = 3 }}

'''''Kuwanaspis''''' is a genus of armoured scales in the family Diaspididae. These scale insects typically feed on Bamboo plants such as ''Phyllostachys heteroclada'' (fishscale bamboo) and ''Pleioblastus amarus'' (bitter bamboo).<ref name=Xu2021/><ref name=gbif/><ref name=catlife/><ref name=Normark2019/><ref name=GarcíaMorales/>

==Species== These 20 species belong to the genus ''Kuwanaspis'':<ref name=GarcíaMorales/><ref name=Takagi1999/><ref name=Xu2021/><ref name=Yuyin1990/><ref name=Tao1982/> {{Div col|colwidth=29em}} * ''Kuwanaspis annandalei'' <small>(Green, 1919)</small> (China, India, Taiwan) * ''Kuwanaspis arundinariae'' <small>Takahashi, 1938</small> (China, Taiwan) * ''Kuwanaspis bambusicola'' <small>(Cockerell, 1899)</small> * ''Kuwanaspis bambusifoliae'' <small>(Takahashi, 1934)</small> (China, Taiwan) * ''Kuwanaspis daliensis'' <small>Hu, 1982</small> (China) * ''Kuwanaspis elongata'' <small>(Takahashi, 1930)</small> (China, Taiwan) * ''Kuwanaspis elongatoides'' <small>H.u.Tang, 1986</small> (China) * ''Kuwanaspis foliosa'' <small>Wu, 1986</small> (China) * ''Kuwanaspis hikosani'' <small>(Kuwana, 1902)</small> * ''Kuwanaspis howardi'' <small>(Cooley, 1898)</small> (bamboo white scale) * ''Kuwanaspis linearis'' <small>(Green, 1922)</small> (bamboo long scale) * ''Kuwanaspis multipora'' <small>Tang, 1986</small> (China) * ''Kuwanaspis neolinearis'' <small>(Takahashi, 1930)</small> (Asia) * ''Kuwanaspis pectinata'' <small>Takagi, 1999</small> (Malaysia) * ''Kuwanaspis phragmitis'' <small>(Takahashi, 1931)</small> (Taiwan) * ''Kuwanaspis pseudoleucaspis'' <small>(Kuwana, 1923)</small> (bamboo diaspidid) * ''Kuwanaspis suishana'' <small>(Takahashi, 1930)</small> (Asia) * ''Kuwanaspis takahashii'' <small>Takagi, 1961</small> (Japan) * ''Kuwanaspis tanzawensis'' <small>Takagi & Kawai, 1966</small> (Japan) * ''Kuwanaspis vermiformis'' <small>(Takahashi, 1930)</small> {{Div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=GBIF, ''Kuwanaspis'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2088084 | access-date=2025-01-25 }}</ref>

<ref name=catlife> {{Cite web| title=Catalogue of Life, ''Kuwanaspis'' Macgillivray, 1921 | url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/CB2GJ | 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 | pmc = 4747323 | url = http://scalenet.info/| access-date = 2024-10-19 }}</ref>

<ref name=Takagi1999>{{Cite journal | last = Takagi | first = Sadao |year=1999| title =Notes on the scale insect subtribe Kuwanaspidina (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)|journal=Insecta Matsumurana|volume=56|pages=95&ndash;150|url=http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/9899/1/56_p95-150.pdf}}</ref>

<ref name=Xu2021>{{cite journal |last1=Xu |first1=Xiu-Lan |last2=Zeng |first2=Qian |last3=Lv |first3=Yi-Cong |last4=Jeewon |first4=Rajesh |last5=Maharachchikumbura |first5=Sajeewa S.N. |last6=Wanasinghe |first6=Dhanushka N. |last7=Hyde |first7=Kevin D. |last8=Xiao |first8=Qian-Gang |last9=Liu |first9=Ying-Gao |last10=Yang |first10=Chun-Lin |title=Insight into the Systematics of Novel Entomopathogenic Fungi Associated with Armored Scale Insect, ''Kuwanaspis howardi'' (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in China |journal=J. Fungi |date=2021 |volume=7 |issue=8 |page=628 |doi=10.3390/jof7080628|pmid=34436167 |pmc=8401669 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

<ref name=Yuyin1990>{{Cite journal|author=Yuyin, Lin|year=1990|title=Observations on ''Kuwanaspis vermiformis'' (Takahashi)|journal=Journal of Bamboo Research|volume=1990|issue=2}} [http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-ZZYJ199002008.htm Abstract]</ref>

<ref name=Tao1982>{{Cite journal|author1=Tao, Charles Chia-chu |author2=Wong, Chen-yu|year=1982|title=Description of a new genus and species of bamboo scale, ''Chuaspis shuichuensis'' (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspidae) from Taiwan, China|journal=Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum|volume=35|pages=123&ndash;125}}</ref> }}

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