Diaspidina is a subtribe of armored scale insects. It occurs mostly in the Americas and Africa, with a few species in tropical Asia. In the Americas Pseudoparlatoria is the largest genus, with Diaspis second; in Africa Diaspis is the largest genus. The grouping identified by Balachowsky in 1954 as the subtribe Diaspidina, are now the tribe Diaspidini.
Anderson found the Diaspidina grouping to constitute a clade with core genera: Carulaspis, Diaspis and Epidiaspis. and one of three sister-clades in the Diaspidini, the other two being the Chionaspidina and the Fioriniina.
Genera The following genera are members of the subtribe Diaspidina. Bantudiaspis Hall, 1928 Carulaspis MacGillivray, 1921 Chilesaphes González, 2015 Credodiaspis MacGillivray, 1921 Cryptodiaspis Lindinger, 1909 Diaspis Costa, 1828 Diaulacaspis Takahashi, 1942 Epidiaspis Cockerell, 1899 Incisaspis MacGillivray, 1921 Leptodiaspis Takagi, 2011 Pseudodiaspis Cockerell, 1897 Thysanofiorinia Balachowsky, 1954 Umbaspis MacGillivray, 1921
See also Chionaspidina Fioriniina Protodiaspidina
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