title: Diaspidina
text: # 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
  