Desmococcus (insect)

For the algae genus, see Desmococcus (alga).

Desmococcus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily:
Coccoidea
Family:
Pityococcidae
Genus:
Desmococcus

McKenzie, 1942
Species

Desmococcus captivus[1]
Desmococcus sedentarius[2]

The scale insect genus Desmococcus is a group in the family Pityococcidae, comprising two species from the western United States, feeding on pines.[3] The type species is Desmococcus captivus[4]

Notes

  1. ^ "Desmococcus captivus McKenzie". Scale Net, United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 15 October 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Desmococcus sedentarius McKenzie". Scale Net, United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
  3. ^ Gill, Raymond J. (1993). The scale insects of California. Part 2. The minor families (Homoptera: Coccoidea) (PDF). Technical series in Agricultural biosystematics and plant pathology. Sacramento, California: California Department of Food and Agriculture. p. 36. OCLC 29329396.
  4. ^ "Desmococcus McKenzie". United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2013.

References

  • McKenzie, H. L. (1942). "New species of pine-infesting Margarodidae from California and southwestern United States (Homoptera; Coccoidca; Margarodidae)". Microentomology. 7 (1): 1–18.
  • Ben-Dov, Y. (2011). "An updated checklist of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Margarodidae sensu lato group". Zootaxa. 2859: 1–62, page 46. Abstract and Table of Contents


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