Chionaspis

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Chionaspis
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Chionaspis salicis, willow scale, Belgium
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Diaspididae
Genus: Chionaspis
Signoret, 1869
Chionaspis pinifoliae, pine needle scale, New York Chionaspis pinifoliae - inat 377234446.jpg
Chionaspis pinifoliae, pine needle scale, New York

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

The following species are members of the genus Chionaspis: [3] [4]

References

  1. "Chionaspis". The Encyclopedia of Life .
  2. Gwiazdowski, Rodger A.; Vea, Isabelle M.; Andersen, Jeremy C.; 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): 47–62. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01716.x . Abstract
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 . PMC   3652468 . PMID   23717184.