# Kuwanaspis

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{{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](/source/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/>
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* ''[Kuwanaspis annandalei](/source/Kuwanaspis_annandalei)'' <small>(Green, 1919)</small> (China, India, Taiwan)
* ''[Kuwanaspis arundinariae](/source/Kuwanaspis_arundinariae)'' <small>Takahashi, 1938</small> (China, Taiwan)
* ''[Kuwanaspis bambusicola](/source/Kuwanaspis_bambusicola)'' <small>(Cockerell, 1899)</small>
* ''[Kuwanaspis bambusifoliae](/source/Kuwanaspis_bambusifoliae)'' <small>(Takahashi, 1934)</small> (China, Taiwan)
* ''[Kuwanaspis daliensis](/source/Kuwanaspis_daliensis)'' <small>Hu, 1982</small> (China)
* ''[Kuwanaspis elongata](/source/Kuwanaspis_elongata)'' <small>(Takahashi, 1930)</small> (China, Taiwan)
* ''[Kuwanaspis elongatoides](/source/Kuwanaspis_elongatoides)'' <small>H.u.Tang, 1986</small> (China)
* ''[Kuwanaspis foliosa](/source/Kuwanaspis_foliosa)'' <small>Wu, 1986</small> (China)
* ''[Kuwanaspis hikosani](/source/Kuwanaspis_hikosani)'' <small>(Kuwana, 1902)</small>
* ''[Kuwanaspis howardi](/source/Kuwanaspis_howardi)'' <small>(Cooley, 1898)</small> (bamboo white scale)
* ''[Kuwanaspis linearis](/source/Kuwanaspis_linearis)'' <small>(Green, 1922)</small> (bamboo long scale)
* ''[Kuwanaspis multipora](/source/Kuwanaspis_multipora)'' <small>Tang, 1986</small> (China)
* ''[Kuwanaspis neolinearis](/source/Kuwanaspis_neolinearis)'' <small>(Takahashi, 1930)</small> (Asia)
* ''[Kuwanaspis pectinata](/source/Kuwanaspis_pectinata)'' <small>Takagi, 1999</small> ([Malaysia](/source/Malaysia))
* ''[Kuwanaspis phragmitis](/source/Kuwanaspis_phragmitis)'' <small>(Takahashi, 1931)</small> (Taiwan)
* ''[Kuwanaspis pseudoleucaspis](/source/Kuwanaspis_pseudoleucaspis)'' <small>(Kuwana, 1923)</small> (bamboo diaspidid)
* ''[Kuwanaspis suishana](/source/Kuwanaspis_suishana)'' <small>(Takahashi, 1930)</small> (Asia)
* ''[Kuwanaspis takahashii](/source/Kuwanaspis_takahashii)'' <small>Takagi, 1961</small> (Japan)
* ''[Kuwanaspis tanzawensis](/source/Kuwanaspis_tanzawensis)'' <small>Takagi & Kawai, 1966</small> (Japan)
* ''[Kuwanaspis vermiformis](/source/Kuwanaspis_vermiformis)'' <small>(Takahashi, 1930)</small>
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==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> 
}}

==External links==
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* {{inaturalist taxon|376791}}
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Category:Sternorrhyncha genera
Category:Diaspidini

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