Aspidiotinae

Aspidiotinae
Aspidiotus nerii oleander scale
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Family:	Diaspididae
Subfamily:	Aspidiotinae

Aspidiotinae is a large subfamily of armored scale insects, with approximately 169 genera. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Tribes

Aspidiotinae is made up of the following tribes:

• Aonidiini Balachowsky (Old World, mostly Australasian and Oriental, 36 genera)
• Aspidiotini Westwood (cosmopolitan, 88 genera)
• Gymnaspidini Balachowsky (Neotropical, 3 genera)
• Leucaspidini Atkinson (almost exclusively Old World, 11 genera)
• Odonaspidini Ferris (mostly Oriental, 5 genera)
• Parlatoriini Leonardi (mostly Oriental, 25 genera)
• Smilacicolini Takagi (Oriental, 1 genus)

References

1. García Morales, M.; Denno, B. D.; Miller, D. R.; Miller, G. L.; et al. "ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics". doi: 10.1093/database/bav118 . Retrieved 2024-10-19.
2. Normark, Benjamin B.; Okusu, Akiko; Morse, Geoffrey E.; Peterson, Daniel A.; et al. (2019). "Phylogeny and classification of armored scale insects (Hemiptera:Coccomorpha: Diaspididae)" . Zootaxa. 4616. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4616.1.1 . Retrieved 2025-01-03.
3. Borkhsenius, N.S. (1966). A catalogue of the armoured scale insects (Diaspidoidea) of the world. Akademiia nauk SSSR. Zoologicheskii Institut, Moscow.
4. Takagi, Sadao (2002). "One new subfamily and two new tribes of the Diaspididae (Homoptera: Coccoidea)". Insecta Matsumurana. 59: 55–100.