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Subtribe: | Furcaspidina Borchsenius, 1966
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Furcaspidina is a subtribe of armored scale insects, traditionally regarded as part of the Aspidiotini. [1] While the subtribe Furcaspidina was not mentioned in Takagi's 2002 study, the Aspidiotini were not deemed as problematical as the Diaspidini and Lepidosaphidini. [4] In 2006, Williams reduced the Furcaspidina to a single genus, with about twenty-eight species. [5] Andersen in 2009 suggested that the Furcaspidina belonged in an expanded subfamily of Diaspidinae; [2] however, additional analysis suggests that the furcaspids are better placed in a distinct, but laterally equivalent subfamily to the Diaspidinae, possibly together with the gymnaspids which Borchsenius placed in the Aspidiotinae subfamily. [3]
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Subtribe: | Furcaspidina Borchsenius, 1966
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Furcaspidina is a subtribe of armored scale insects, traditionally regarded as part of the Aspidiotini. [1] While the subtribe Furcaspidina was not mentioned in Takagi's 2002 study, the Aspidiotini were not deemed as problematical as the Diaspidini and Lepidosaphidini. [4] In 2006, Williams reduced the Furcaspidina to a single genus, with about twenty-eight species. [5] Andersen in 2009 suggested that the Furcaspidina belonged in an expanded subfamily of Diaspidinae; [2] however, additional analysis suggests that the furcaspids are better placed in a distinct, but laterally equivalent subfamily to the Diaspidinae, possibly together with the gymnaspids which Borchsenius placed in the Aspidiotinae subfamily. [3]