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