Coccidae

The Coccidae are a family of scale insects belonging to the superfamily Coccoidea. They are commonly known as soft scales, wax scales or tortoise scales. The females are flat with elongated oval bodies and a smooth integument which may be covered with wax. In some genera they possess legs but in others, they do not, and the antennae may be shortened or missing. The males may be alate or apterous.[1]

Coccidae
Green scale, Coccus viridis.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Coccidae
Genera

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Wax scale, Ceroplastes cirripediformis

Genera
  • Subfamily Myzolecaniinae
    • Akermes
    • Alecanium
    • Alecanopsis
    • Cribolecanium
    • Cryptostigma
    • Cyclolecanium
    • Halococcus
    • Houardia
    • Megasaissetia
    • Myzolecanium
    • Neolecanium
    • Paractenochiton
    • Pseudophilippia
    • Richardiella
    • Torarchus
    • Toumeyella
    • Xenolecanium[2]
  • Antecerococcus
  • Ceroplastes
  • Coccus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Eucalymnatus Cockerell, 1901
  • Eulecanium
  • Kilifia De Lotto, 1965
  • Lecanium
  • Metaceronema
  • Milviscutulus
  • Paralecanium Cockerell in Cockerell & Parrott 1899
  • Parasaissetia Takahashi 1955
  • Parthenolecanium Šulc 1908
  • Physokermes Targioni Tozzetti 1868
  • Protopulvinaria Cockerell 1894
  • Pulvinaria Targioni-tozzetti, 1867
  • Saissetia Deplanche, 1858

See also

References
  1. General and Applied Entomology: Hemiptera
  2. KONDO, TAKUMASA; Prof. WILLIAMS M.L. (2001). "The Myzolecaniinae (Hemiptera: Coccidae): Old World vs. New World" (PDF). Bollettino di Zoologia agraria e di Bachicoltura. II. 33 (3): 125–128. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-06-21.


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