Desmococcus (insect)

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

Desmococcus captivus
Desmococcus sedentarius

Desmococcus is a genus of scale insects in the family Margarodidae, comprising two species from the western United States, feeding on pines. The type species is Desmococcus captivus

Notes

  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.

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