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Genus of true bugs

Antecerococcus
Antecerococcus indicus (with an attendant ant Camponotus sp.) is common on Hibiscus spp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Family: Cerococcidae
Genus: Antecerococcus
Green, 1901
Type species
Cerococcus punctiferus
Green, 1901

Antecerococcus is a genus of scale insects. They are found worldwide but with greater abundance in the Old World. There are about 56 species:

References

  1. Green, E.E. (1901). "On some new species of Coccidae from Australia, collected by W.W. Froggatt, F.L.S." Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 25: 559–562.
  2. Hodgson, Chris J.; Williams, Douglas J. (2016). "A revision of the family Cerococcidae Balachowsky (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha, Coccomorpha) with particular reference to species from the Afrotropical, western Palaearctic and western Oriental Regions, with the revival of Antecerococcus Green and description of a new genus and fifteen new species, and with ten new synonomies". Zootaxa. 4091 (1): 1–175. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4091.1.1. PMID 27394446.

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Taxon identifiers
Antecerococcus
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