Diaspididae
Diaspididae | |
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Three species of armored scales | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
Superfamily: | Coccoidea |
Family: | Diaspididae Maskell, 1878 |
Subfamilies | |
Diaspididae is the largest family of
armor
. For this reason these insects are commonly referred to as armored scale insects. As it is so robust and firmly attached to the host plant, the scale often persists long after the insect has died.
Some African Diaspididae are attended by ants of genus Melissotarsus. The ants appear to consume the armored scales because Diaspididae are completely naked when ant-attended; the ant nest itself remains completely hidden under the bark of the tree.[2]
Selected species
Notable species include:
- Abgrallaspis cyanophylli, the cyanophyllum scale
- Aonidiella aurantii, the California red scale
- Aonidomytilus crookiae the St. John's Wort scale
- Aulacaspis yasumatsui, the cycad aulacaspis scale
- Carulaspis minima, the minute cypress scale
- Diaspidiotus perniciosus, the San Jose scale
- Hemiberlesia lataniae, the latania or palm scale
- Lepidosaphes beckii, the citrus mussel scale
- Lepidosaphes ulmi, the oystershell scale
- Quadraspidiotus juglansregiae, the walnut scale
Genera
References
- ISBN 0-8014-4279-6.
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- Борхсениус (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).
- Howard, Forrest D. (2001). "Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha". In Howard, Forrest D.; et al. (eds.). Insects on Palms. ISBN 978-0-85199-326-3.
- Takagi, Sadao (2002). "One new subfamily and two new tribes of the Diaspididae (Homoptera: Coccoidea)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. 59: 55–100. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
External links
- Diaspididae at ScaleNet
- Aulacaspis yasumatsui, cycad aulacaspis scale
- Comstockiella sabalis, palmetto scale
- Diaspis boisduvalii, boisduval scale
- Fiorinia theae, tea scale
- Ischnaspis longirostris, black thread scale
- Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli, false oleander scale
- Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, white peach scale
- Data related to Diaspididae at Wikispecies