Diaspidinae

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

Diaspidinae is the largest subfamily of armored scale insects, with 252 genera.[1][2]

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. 185186.
  2. Takagi, Sadao (2002). "One new subfamily and two new tribes of the Diaspididae (Homoptera: Coccoidea)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana 59: 55–100. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 December 2013.


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