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.