Chionaspidina

Chionaspidina
Aulacaspis yasumatsui
the cycad aulacaspis scale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Diaspididae
Subfamily: Diaspidinae
Tribe: Diaspidini
Subtribe: Chionaspidina

Chionaspidina is a subtribe of armored scale insects established by Borchenius.[1] But unlike many of the subtribes recognized by Borchenius, this one was found to be morphologically valid by Takagi.[2][3] Similarly, in molecular analysis, Andersen et al. found a clade roughly corresponding to the subtribe Chionaspidina.[4]

Geographical sampling and analysis indicated a number of unnamed species in the genus Chionaspis and by inference in the Chionaspidina.[5]

Genera

References

  1. 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. 93.
  2. Takagi, Sadao (2002). "One new subfamily and two new tribes of the Diaspididae (Homoptera: Coccoidea)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana 59: 55–100, page 76 (Table 1). Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 December 2013.
  3. Takagi, Sadao (2007). "Two new genera of the Diaspidini from the Indian subcontinent (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana (new series) 63: 6783. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 January 2014.
  4. Andersen, Jeremy C. et al. (2010). "A phylogenetic analysis of armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), based upon nuclear, mitochondrial, and endosymbiont gene sequences" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 57 (3): 9921003. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.002. PMID 20460159. Archived from the original on 29 December 2013.
  5. Gwiazdowski, Rodger A.; Vea, Isabelle M.; Andersen, Jeremy C. and Normark, Benjamin B. (2011). "Discovery of cryptic species among North American pine‐feeding Chionaspis scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 104 (1): 4762. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01716.x. Abstract