Gallacoccus

Gallacoccus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Beesoniidae
Genus: Gallacoccus
Beardsley, 1971
Species
See text

Gallacoccus is a genus of the scale insects commonly known as beesoniids. They typically cause galls on their plant hosts. Gallacoccus anthonyae is the type species. Female members of the genus Gallacoccus have only three instars, in contrast to the other beesoniid genera where the females have four.[1]

Species

  • Gallacoccus heckrothi Takagi, 2001
  • Gallacoccus anthonyae Beardsley, 1971
  • Gallacoccus secundus Beardsley, 1971
  • Gallacoccus spinigalla Takagi, 2001

Notes

  1. "Family: Beesoniidae". United States Department of Agriculture. 2008. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013.

References

  • Beardsley, John W. (1971). "A new genus of gall-inhabiting Eriococcidae from Singapore (Homoptera: Coccoidea)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society. 21 (1): 31&ndash, 39. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 December 2013.
  • Takagi, Sadao (2001). "Four gall-inducing eriococcids, with notes on dipterocarp-associated gall-inhabiting coccoids (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae and Beesoniidae)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. 58: 51&ndash, 113.


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