Genus Diaspis Costa, 1835

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• Diaspis Costa, O.G. 1835. Fauna del regno di Napoli, famiglia de' coccinigliferi, o de' gallinsetti. Napoli : Emitteri 23 pp. [undated; publication date listed by Fernald and Lindinger acccepted] [19].

  Type species:

   Diaspis calyptroides Costa, 1835 by subsequent designation, see Cockerell, T.D.A. 1902. The Coccid genus Aulacaspis. The Entomologist 35: 58-59 [58].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Froggatt, W.W. 1914. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 25: 875-882 [879] (as Disapis; description)

Kuwana, I. 1926. The diaspine Coccidae of Japan, IV. Genera Cryptoparlatoria, Howardia, Sasakiaspis, Diaspis, Aulacaspis, Pinnaspis and Prontaspis. Imperial Plant Quarantine Service Technical Bulletin 4: 1-44, 12 pls, 1 fig. [14-15] (as Diaspis; description)

Signoret, V. 1869. Essai sur les cochenilles ou gallinsectes (Homoptères – Coccides) 5e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 9: 431-452 [431-432] (as Diaspis; description)

Takagi, S. 1970. Diaspididae of Taiwan based on material collected in connection with the Japan-U.S. Co-operative Science Programme, 1965 (Homoptera: Coccoidea) Part 2. Insecta Matsumurana 33: 1-146 [32-33] (as Diaspis; description)

Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1988. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Part 1. The armoured scales (Diaspididae). London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 290 pp. [100] (as Diaspis; description)

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