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Coccus (insect)

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Genus of true bugs

Coccus
Coccus hesperidum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Family: Coccidae
Genus: Coccus
Linnaeus, 1758

Coccus is a genus of scale insects in the family Coccidae. Several species, such as Coccus viridis, a major pest of coffee, are major agricultural pests. The type species is Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus.

Species

Former species

References

  1. Ananthakrishnan, Taracad Narayanan (2004). "Family Coccidae (soft scales, wax scales, tortoise scales)". In Nayar, K. Karunakaran; Ananthakrishnan, Taracad Narayanan; David, B. Vasantharaj (eds.). General and applied entomology (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill. p. 437. ISBN 978-0-07-043435-6.
  2. Ben-Dov, Yair (1977). "Taxonomy of the long brown scale Coccus longulus (Douglas), stat. n.(Homoptera: Coccidae)". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 67 (1): 89–95. doi:10.1017/S0007485300010919.
  3. Ben-Dov, Yair; Cox, Jennifer M. (1990). "The identity of five species of scale insects (Hem., Homoptera, Coccoidea), living on ornamental plants, originally described by PF Bouché". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 126: 79–84.
  4. Sanders, James Glossbrenner (1906). Catalogue of recently described Coccidae. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Series, number 12, part 1. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. p. 372.
  5. De Lotto, Giovanni (1960). "The Green Scales of Coffee in Africa South of the Sahara (Homoptera, Coccidae)". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 51 (2): 389–403. doi:10.1017/S0007485300058041.
  6. Sanders, James Glossbrenner (1909). The euonymus scale (Chionaspis euonymi Comstock). United States Department of Agriculture Circular 114. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. Google Books - no preview
  7. Bartlett, Blair Ralph (1978). "Coccidae". In Clausen, Curtis P. (ed.). Introduced Parasites and Predators of Arthropod Pests and Weeds: A world review. Agriculture Handbook No. 480. Washington, D.C.: Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. pp. 57–74, view=1up, seq=68 page 60.
  8. Hall, Wilfrid John (1922). Observations on the Coccidae of Egypt. Technical and Scientific Service Bulletin, number 22. Cairo: Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Government Press.
  9. Ben-Dov, Yair (1993). A Systematic Catalogue of the Soft Scale Insects of the World (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae): With Data on Geographical Distribution, Host Plants, Biology, and Economics Importance. Flora & Fauna Handbook, No. 9. Gainesville, Florida: CRC Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-877743-13-9.
  10. De Lotto, Giovanni (1957). "On some Ethiopian species of the genus Coccus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)". Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa. 20: 295–314.
  11. Fernald, Maria Elizabeth Smith (1903). A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Number 88. Amherst, Massachusetts: Carpenter and Morehouse. p. 173, Item 860. book at Google Books
  12. Bartlett, Blair Ralph (1978). Introduced parasites and predators of arthropod pests and weeds:a world review. Washington, D.C.: Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. p. 61.
  13. Lin, Yen-Po; Kondo, Takumasa; Gullan, Penny; Cook, Lyn G. (2013). "Delimiting genera of scale insects: molecular and morphological evidence for synonymising Taiwansaissetia Tao, Wong and Chang with Coccus Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)". Systematic Entomology. 38 (2): 249–264. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00664.x.
  14. Fernald 1903, p. 174
Taxon identifiers
Coccus


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