Desmococcus (insect)
| Desmococcus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Margarodidae |
| Genus: | Desmococcus McKenzie, 1942 |
| Species | |
Desmococcus is a genus of scale insects in the family Margarodidae, comprising two species from the western United States, feeding on pines.[3] The type species is Desmococcus captivus[4]
Notes
- ↑ "Desmococcus captivus McKenzie". Scale Net, United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 15 October 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ↑ "Desmococcus sedentarius McKenzie". Scale Net, United States Department of Agriculture.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2859.1.1. Abstract and Table of Contents