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Desmococcus (insect)

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Desmococcus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Family: Margarodidae
Genus: Desmococcus
McKenzie, 1942
Species

Desmococcus captivus[1]
Desmococcus sedentarius[2]

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

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  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  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

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  • 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