Gallacoccus

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

Notes

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

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