Chionaspis

Chionaspis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Diaspididae
Subfamily: Diaspidinae
Tribe: Diaspidini
Subtribe: Chionaspidina
Genus: Chionaspis
Signoret, 1869

Chionaspis is a genus of scale insect.[1] In 2011 geographical sampling and analysis indicated a number of unnamed species in the genus Chionaspis.[2]

Species

References

  1. Chionaspis at the Encyclopedia of Life
  2. 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
  3. 1 2 3 4 Vea, Isabelle M.; Gwiazdowski, Rodger A.; Normark, Benjamin B. (2013). "Corroborating molecular species discovery: Four new pine-feeding species of Chionaspis (Hemiptera, Diaspididae)". ZooKeys 270: 37–58. doi:10.3897/zookeys.270.2910.


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