Diaspidinae

Diaspidinae
Aulacaspis yasumatsui the cycad aulacaspis scale
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Family:	Diaspididae
Subfamily:	Diaspidinae
Tribes
Ancepaspidini Antakaspidini Diaspidini Lepidosaphidini

Diaspidinae is the largest subfamily of Diaspididae (the largest family of scale insects), with more than 200 genera in two tribes.[1][2][3][4]

• Tribe Diaspidini
  • Subtribe Chionaspidina (cosmopolitan except South America, 48 genera)
  • Subtribe Diaspidina (cosmopolitan except Australasia, 13 genera)
  • Subtribe Fioriniina (almost exclusively Old World, 64 genera)
• Tribe Lepidosaphidini (cosmopolitan, 103 genera)

References

1. Normark, Benjamin B.; Okusu, Akiko; Morse, Geoffrey E.; Peterson, Daniel A.; et al. (2019). "Phylogeny and classification of armored scale insects (Hemiptera:Coccomorpha: Diaspididae)". Zootaxa. 4616. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4616.1.1. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
2. García Morales, M.; Denno, B. D.; Miller, D. R.; Miller, G. L.; et al. "ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics". doi:10.1093/database/bav118. Retrieved 2024-10-19.
3. Борхсениус, Н. С. (Borchsenius), Н. С. (N. S.) (1966). Каталог щитовок (Диаспидоидеа) мировой фауны (A catalogue of the armoured scale insects (Diaspidoidea) of the world) (in Russian). Moscow: Академия наук СССР – Зоологический институт (Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences). p. 185–186.
4. Takagi, Sadao (2002). "One new subfamily and two new tribes of the Diaspididae (Homoptera: Coccoidea)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. 59: 55–100. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.