Chionaspidina

{{Short description|Subtribe of scale insects}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Chionaspidina | image = Aulacaspis yasumatsui 5194053.jpg | image_caption = ''Aulacaspis yasumatsui'' the cycad aulacaspis scale | taxon = Chionaspidina | authority = Brues & Melander | synonyms_ref = <ref name=Normark2019/> | synonyms = {{taxon_list | Protodiaspidina | Takagi | Ulucoccinae | Takagi }} }}

'''Chionaspidina''' is a subtribe of armored scale insects established by Borchenius.<ref name="Borchsenius">{{Cite book | last = Борхсениус, Н. С. (Borchsenius) | first = Н. С. (N. S.) |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)|page=93}}</ref> But unlike many of the subtribes recognized by Borchenius, this one was found to be morphologically valid by Takagi.<ref name="Takagi-2002">{{Cite journal | last = Takagi | first = Sadao | year = 2002 | title = One new subfamily and two new tribes of the Diaspididae (Homoptera: Coccoidea) | journal = Insecta Matsumurana | volume = 59 | pages = 55–100, page 76 (Table 1) | url = http://eprints2008.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/9912/1/59_p55-100.pdf | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131228153552/http://eprints2008.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/9912/1/59_p55-100.pdf | archivedate = 28 December 2013 | url-status = dead | access-date = 1 January 2014 }}</ref><ref name="Takagi-2007">{{Cite journal|last=Takagi|first=Sadao|year=2007|title=Two new genera of the Diaspidini from the Indian subcontinent (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)|journal=Insecta Matsumurana |series=New Series|volume=63|pages=67–83|url=http://eprints2008.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/20009/1/Insecta%2063-67.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101182707/http://eprints2008.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/20009/1/Insecta%2063-67.pdf|archivedate=1 January 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=1 January 2014}}</ref> Similarly, in molecular analysis, Andersen ''et al.'' found a clade roughly corresponding to the subtribe Chionaspidina.<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|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237012202|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229213449/http://www.researchgate.net/publication/237012202_Andersen_et_al_2010_Diaspididae_phylogeny|archivedate=29 December 2013|url-status=live|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.002|pmid=20460159|display-authors=etal}}</ref>

Geographical sampling and analysis indicated a number of unnamed species in the genus ''Chionaspis'' and by inference in the Chionaspidina.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Gwiazdowski, Rodger A. |author2=Vea, Isabelle M. |author3=Andersen, Jeremy C. |author4=Normark, Benjamin B. |year=2011|title=Discovery of cryptic species among North American pine-feeding ''Chionaspis'' scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)|journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=104|issue=1|pages=47–62|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01716.x|doi-access=free}} [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01716.x/abstract Abstract]</ref>

==Genera== The following genera are members of the subtribe Chionaspidina.<ref name=Normark2019/><ref name=GarcíaMorales/> {{div col| colwidth=20em}} * ''Afiorinia'' Takagi, 1970 * ''Amphisoma'' Takagi, 1995 * ''Anaimalaia'' Takagi, 1995 * ''Aulacaspis'' Cockerell, 1893 * ''Balachowskiella'' Kaussari, 1955 * ''Cameronaspis'' Takagi Pong & Ghee, 1988 * ''Chionandaspis'' Takagi, 2008 * ''Chionaspis'' Signoret, 1868 * ''Cupidaspis'' MacGillivray, 1921 * ''Damaia'' Takagi, 2003 * ''Dungunia'' Takagi, 1993 * ''Duplachionaspis'' MacGillivray, 1921 * ''Duplaspis'' Goux, 1937 * ''Fijifiorinia'' Williams & Watson, 1988 * ''Greenaspis'' MacGillivray, 1921 * ''Guineaspis'' Balachowsky, 1952 * ''Guizhoaspis'' Young, 1986 * ''Hemiaspidis'' MacGillivray, 1921 * ''Hybridaspis'' Green, 1926 * ''Kuchingaspis'' Takagi, 2005 * ''Kyphosoma'' Takagi, 1993 * ''Larutaspis'' Takagi, 2005 * ''Marchalaspis'' MacGillivray, 1921 * ''Megacanthaspis'' Takagi, 1960 * ''Myrtaspis'' Takagi, 1999 * ''Narayanaspis'' Takagi, 1998 * ''Neochionaspis'' Borchsenius, 1974 * ''Neoquernaspis'' Howell & Takagi, 1981 * ''Pentacicola'' Takagi, 1993 * ''Pinangaspis'' Takagi, 2003 * ''Pinnaspis'' Cockerell, 1892 * ''Protodiaspis'' Cockerell, 1898 * ''Quernaspis'' Ferris, 1937 * ''Semonggokia'' Takagi, 2003 * ''Serenaspis'' Henderson, 2011 * ''Serrachionaspis'' Young, 1986 * ''Shansiaspis'' Tang, 1981 * ''Sinoquernaspis'' Takagi & Tang, 1982 * ''Sphaeroceraspis'' Balachowsky & Ferrero, 1965 * ''Takagiaspis'' Varshney, 2002 * ''Takahashiaspis'' Takagi, 1961 * ''Tamuraspis'' Takagi, 1989 * ''Tanaparlatoria'' Mamet, 1962 * ''Thoa'' Takagi, 1993 * ''Trullifiorinia'' Leonardi, 1906 * ''Ulucoccus'' Takagi Pong & Ghee, 1990 * ''Unaspis'' MacGillivray, 1921 * ''Yuanaspis'' Young, 1986 {{div col end}}

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