Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Diaspis Costa, 1835

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Genus Diaspis Costa, 1835

  • 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. Entomologist 35: 58–59 [58]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions Distribution - IBRA and/or IMCRA
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones Distribution - drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • Queensland: NE coastal
    • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Federated States of Micronesia
  • Hawaii
  • New Zealand
  • Papua New Guinea

Nearctic Region

  • Canada
  • Mexico
  • United States of America

Neotropical Region

  • Mexico
  • Brazil
  • Cuba
  • Guyana
  • Puerto Rico

Oriental Region

  • India
  • Sri Lanka
  • Taiwan

Palaearctic Region

  • Algeria
  • France
  • Israel
  • Japan

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 pp. 290 [100] (as Diaspis; description)