Biology:Desmococcus (insect)

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Short description: Genus of true bugs


Desmococcus
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Desmococcus

McKenzie, 1942
Species

Desmococcus captivus[1]
Desmococcus sedentarius[2]

The scale insect genus Desmococcus is a group in the family Pityococcidae, comprising two species from the western United States , feeding on pines.[3] The type species is Desmococcus captivus[4]

Notes

  1. "Desmococcus captivus McKenzie". Scale Net, United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 15 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101015030812/http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/catalogs/pityococ/Desmococcuscaptivus.htm. 
  2. "Desmococcus sedentarius McKenzie". Scale Net, United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. https://archive.today/20131230201514/http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/catalogs/pityococ/Desmococcussedentarius.htm. 
  3. Gill, Raymond J. (1993). The scale insects of California. Part 2. The minor families (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Technical series in Agricultural biosystematics and plant pathology. Sacramento, California: California Department of Food and Agriculture. p. 36. OCLC 29329396. http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/ppd/PDF/Technical_Series_02.pdf. 
  4. "Desmococcus McKenzie". United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131226034658/http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/catalogs/pityococ/DesmococcusAll.htm. 

References

  • McKenzie, H. L. (1942). "New species of pine-infesting Margarodidae from California and southwestern United States (Homoptera; Coccoidca; Margarodidae)". Microentomology 7 (1): 1–18. 
  • Ben-Dov, Y. (2011). "An updated checklist of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Margarodidae sensu lato group". Zootaxa 2859: 1–62, page 46.  Abstract and Table of Contents

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