Parlatoriini is a tribe in the armored scale insect family Diaspididae. Takagi (2002) indicated that the Parlatoriini appear to be phylogenetically related to the Smilacicola and the Odonaspidini. Takagi went on to say about the tropical east Asian Parlatoriini that, The current classification of their genera may be largely tentative because the adult females are simple-featured and much modified owing to the pupillarial mode of life, and also because the second instar nymphs are generally similar among parlatoriines, whether the adult females are pupillarial or not. Andersen found that separating out pupillarial forms into a separate subtribe, Gymnaspidina, was counterproductive, as being non-dispositive.
Molecular analysis has shown that the Parlatoriini as traditionally constituted is highly non-monophyletic and that the genera, and occasionally species, are interdigitated with the Aspidiotini.
In 2019, Normark et al. published phylogenetic research on the family Diaspididae, reclassifying many of its tribes, subtribes, and genera.
Genera The following genera in are members of the tribe Parlatoriini. Aleucaspis Takagi, 1977 Annonogena Takagi, 2008 Arivonimaspis Mamet, 1962, Benaparlatoria Balachowsky, 1953 Cryptoparlatoreopsis Borchsenius, 1947 Doriopus Brimblecombe, 1960 Kochummenaspis Takagi, 2003 Leptaspis Hardy & Williams, 2018 Ligaspis Takagi, 2002 Mangaspis Takagi & Kondo, 1997 Microparlatoria Takahashi, 1956 Mixaspis Takahashi, 1932 Neoleucaspis Green, 1926 Neoparlatoria Takahashi, 1932 Neparla Takagi, 1987 Parlagena McKenzie, 1945 Parlaspis McKenzie, 1945 Parlatoreopsis Lindinger, 1912 Parlatoria Targioni Tozzetti, 1868 Porogymnaspis Green, 1916 Proceraspis MacGillivray, 1921 Radionaspis Ferris, 1942 Silvestraspis Bellio, 1929 Sishanaspis Ferris, 1952 Tamilparla Takagi, 1987
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