Desmococcus (insect)

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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. 
  2. "Desmococcus sedentarius McKenzie". Scale Net, United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 15 October 2010. 
  3. Gill, Raymond J. (1993). The scale insects of California. Part 2. The minor families (Homoptera: Coccoidea). 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. 

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: 162, page 46.  Abstract and Table of Contents
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