Diaspidina
# Diaspidina

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

* Bantudiaspis Hall, 1941
* Carulaspis MacGillivray, 1921
* Diaulacaspis Takahashi, 1942 included by Anderson in the Chionaspidina, and by Takagi in the Diaspidina.
* Diaspidistis Hempel, 1900
* Diaspis Costa, 1835
* Epidiaspis Cockerell, 1902
* Eucleaspis Munting, 1968
* Geodiaspis Tippins & Howell, 1973
* Incisaspis MacGillivray, 1921
* Leptodiaspis Takagi, 2011
* Malleolaspis Ferris, 1941
* Mancaspis Ferris, 1941
* Protargionia Leonardi, 1911
* Pseudodiaspis Cockerell, 1899
* Pseudoparlatoria Cockerell, 1892
* Situlaspis MacGillivray, 1921
* Thysanofiorinia Balachowsky, 1954 included by Anderson in the Fioriniina, and by Takagi in the Diaspidina.
* Umbaspis MacGillivray, 1921
* Yunnanaspis Young, 1986

## Former genera

* Alioides Brimblecombe, 1958
* Imerinaspis Mamet, 1954
* Parachionaspis MacGillivray, 1921
* Pseudaulacaspis MacGillivray, 1921
* Serrataspis Ferris, 1955
* Takahashiaspis Takagi, 1960
