Rugaspidiotina

Rugaspidiotina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily:
Coccoidea
Family:
Diaspididae
Subfamily:
Diaspidinae
Tribe:
various
Subtribe:
Rugaspidiotina

Rugaspidiotina is an obsolete subtribe of armored scale insects. It was established by Balachowsky in 1949 to accept those Diaspidinae which had rugaspidiotine characteristics as exemplified by genus Rugaspidiotus MacGillivray, species Rugaspidiotus arizonicus (Cockerell, 1900),[1] and was moved from the Odonaspidini to the Diaspidini by Borchsenius.[2] It was raised to tribe status as Rugaspidiotini.[3] However, close examination of species assigned to the Rugaspidiotini showed that the rugaspidiotine characteristics convergently evolved in different groups of diaspidids.[4][5] Rugaspidiotini and Rugaspidiotina are now regarded as obsolete groupings.[6]

  1. ^ Balachowsky, Alfred Serge (1949). "Sur un Rugaspidiotus (Coccoidea-Odonaspidini) nouveau d'Oranie". Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord (in French). 40: 107–110.
  2. ^ Borchsenius, Nikolai 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. 150.
  3. ^ Takagi, Sadao (1983). "The scale insect genus Smilacicola, with particular reference to atavistic polymorphism in the second instar (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. New Series. 27: 1–36. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 January 2014.
  4. ^ Takagi, Sadao; FangTeh, Tang; Yaşar, Bulent & Kondo, Takumasa (1997). "Further forms for the Rugaspidiotini-problem (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. 53: 81–116.
  5. ^ Takagi, Sadao & Martin, Jon H. (2010). "A new scale insect genus from Hong Kong: another clue to the Rugaspidiotini-problem (Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. New Series. 66: 37–55.
  6. ^ 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.