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Fimbriaticoccus Gullan & Williams 2021

  • 1. Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences, Cromwell Road, London, SW 7 5 BD, U. K.
  • 2. Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Department of Plant Industry, Gainesville, Florida, U. S. A.

Description

Fimbriaticoccus Gullan & Williams, 2021: 296.

Type species Ripersia leptospermi Maskell. Eriococcidae (neococcoids).

The species was originally described as a mealybug (Pseudococcidae) but was transferred to the Eriococcidae by Williams (1985).

Notes

Published as part of Williams, Douglas J. & Denno, Barbara D., 2024, New genus names, family-group names and misspellings published between 2020 and 2023 in the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha), pp. 347-350 in Zootaxa 5415 (2) on page 347, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/10692865

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gullan & Williams
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Eriococcidae
Genus
Fimbriaticoccus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Fimbriaticoccus Gullan, 2021 sec. Williams & Denno, 2024

References

  • Gullan, P. J. & Williams, D. J. (2021) A new genus of Eriococcidae (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) for an unusual species on Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Australian Entomologist, 48, 293 - 312.