Furcaspidina

Furcaspidina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily:
Coccoidea
Family:
Diaspididae
Subfamily:
Aspidiotinae[1] or Diaspidinae[2] or to be determined[3]
Tribe:
Aspidiotini[1] or Furcaspidini[2]
Subtribe:
Furcaspidina

Borchsenius, 1966
Genera
See text

Furcaspidina is a subtribe of armored scale insects, traditionally regarded as part of the Aspidiotini.[1] While the subtribe Furcaspidina was not mentioned in Takagi's 2002 study, the Aspidiotini were not deemed as problematical as the Diaspidini and Lepidosaphidini.[4] In 2006, Williams reduced the Furcaspidina to a single genus, with about twenty-eight species.[5] Andersen in 2009 suggested that the Furcaspidina belonged in an expanded subfamily of Diaspidinae;[2] however, additional analysis suggests that the furcaspids are better placed in a distinct, but laterally equivalent subfamily to the Diaspidinae, possibly together with the gymnaspids which Borchsenius placed in the Aspidiotinae subfamily.[3]

  1. ^ a b c 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. 240.
  2. ^ a b c 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.
  3. ^ a b 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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.002. PMID 20460159. Archived from the original on 29 December 2013.
  4. ^ Takagi, Sadao (2002). "One new subfamily and two new tribes of the Diaspididae (Homoptera: Coccoidea)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. 59: 55–100, page 60, page 76 (Table 1). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  5. ^ Williams, Douglas J.; Miller, Douglass R.; Rung, Alessandra (2006). "A systematic revision of the armored scale genus Furcaspis Lindinger (Diaspididae: Coccoidea: Hemiptera)" (PDF). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute. 34: 1–86. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2013.