| Crypticerya | |
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| Genista giant scale insect (Crypticerya genistae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Monophlebidae |
| Genus: | Crypticerya Cockerell, 1895 |
Crypticerya is a genus of scale insects belonging to the family Monophlebidae. When the genus was revived in 2008, it included 22 species, all found in the Americas. As of 2024, there are 28 described species.
History
The name was established by Cockerell in 1895 as a subgenus of Icerya. It was elevated to a genus in 1899, synonymized in 1926, and revived as a genus in 2008.
List of species
- Crypticerya abrahami (Newstead, 1917)
- Crypticerya aegyptiensis (Foldi, 2010)
- Crypticerya brasiliensis (Hempel, 1900)
- Crypticerya bursera (Unruh, 2008)
- Crypticerya colimensis (Cockerell, 1902)
- Crypticerya flava (Hempel, 1920)
- Crypticerya flocculosa (Hempel, 1932)
- Crypticerya genistae (Hempel, 1912)
- Crypticerya littoralis (Cockerell, 1898)
- Crypticerya luederwaldti (Hempel, 1918)
- Crypticerya marocensis (Foldi, 2010)
- Crypticerya mexicana (Cockerell & Parrott in Cockerell, 1899)
- Crypticerya minima (Morrison, 1919)
- Crypticerya montserratensis (Riley & Howard, 1890)
- Crypticerya morrilli (Cockerell, 1914)
- Crypticerya multicicatrices (Kondo & Unruh, 2009)
- Crypticerya ovivivipara (Gavrilov-Zimin, 2018)
- Crypticerya palmeri (Riley & Howard, 1890)
- Crypticerya pimentae (Newstead, 1917)
- Crypticerya rileyi (Cockerell, 1895)
- Crypticerya rosae (Riley & Howard, 1890)
- Crypticerya similis (Morrison, 1927)
- Crypticerya subandina (Leonardi, 1911)
- Crypticerya tabernicola (Ferris, 1921)
- Crypticerya thibaudi (Foldi, 2010)
- Crypticerya townsendi (Cockerell, 1896)
- Crypticerya tuberculata (Morrison, 1941)
- Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell, 1914)
References
- Unruh, Corinne M. (30 April 2008). "A taxonomic review of the Crypticerya species (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae) of the southwestern United States and Mexico, including description of a new species from Baja California". Zootaxa. 1759 (1): 1–42. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1759.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ "Crypticerya Cockerell, 1895". ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
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