| Diaspidina | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Diaspididae |
| Tribe: | Diaspidini |
| Subtribe: | Diaspidina |
Diaspidina is a subtribe of armored scale insects.[1] It occurs mostly in the Americas and Africa, with a few species in tropical Asia.[2] In the Americas Pseudoparlatoria is the largest genus, with Diaspis second; in Africa Diaspis is the largest genus.[2] The grouping identified by Balachowsky in 1954 as the subtribe Diaspidina,[3] are now the tribe Diaspidini.[2]
Anderson found the Diaspidina grouping to constitute a clade with core genera: Carulaspis, Diaspis and Epidiaspis.[4] and one of three sister-clades in the Diaspidini, the other two being the Chionaspidina and the Fioriniina.[5]
- ^ Borchsenius, 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). pp. 28, 80, 150, 159.
- ^ a b c Takagi, Sadao (2011). "A new scale insect of the subtribe diaspidina from south India, with Notes on the subtribe (Sternorrtyncha: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. New Series. 67: 41–60.
- ^ Balachowsky, Alfred Serge (1954). Les cochenilles Paléarctiques de la tribu des Diaspidini (in French). Paris: Institut Pasteur.
- ^ Andersen, Jeremy C. (2009). A Phylogenetic Analysis of Armored Scale Insects, Based Upon Nuclear, Mitochondrial, and Endosymbiont Gene Sequences. Master's Thesis. University of Massachusetts. p. 10. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
- ^ Andersen, Jeremy C.; et al. (2010). "A phylogenetic analysis of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), based upon nuclear, mitochondrial, and endosymbiont gene sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. 57 (3): 992–1003, page 1000. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.002. PMID 20460159. Archived from the original on 29 December 2013.