A new genus and four new species of the scale insect family Eriococcidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from the Austro-Oriental Region. Author Kozár, Ferenc Author Williams, Douglas J. Author Benedicty, Zsuzsanna Konczné text Zootaxa 2009 1979 1 15 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.185241 c653be29-954f-4e44-96e7-5d490396776a 1175-5326 185241 Eriococcus Targioni Tozzetti Type species: Eriococcus ( Coccus ) buxi Fonscolombe The genus Eriococcus currently contains several hundred species and is almost certainly paraphyletic, although the defining characters for possible generic divisions are still uncertain. As indicated in the Introduction, Cook et al. (2002) consider that species in this genus fall within three quite separate clades. The relationships of the species described as new below is unknown but is morphologically similar to E. araucariae Maskell.