Gallacoccus

Gallacoccus is a genus of the scale insects commonly known as beesoniids. They typically cause galls on their plant hosts. Gallacoccus anthonyae is the type species. Female members of the genus Gallacoccus have only three instars, in contrast to the other beesoniid genera where the females have four.[1]

Gallacoccus
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Gallacoccus

Beardsley, 1971
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Species

  • Gallacoccus heckrothi Takagi, 2001
  • Gallacoccus anthonyae Beardsley, 1971
  • Gallacoccus secundus Beardsley, 1971
  • Gallacoccus spinigalla Takagi, 2001

Notes

  1. "Family: Beesoniidae". United States Department of Agriculture. 2008. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013.

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