Crypticerya
| Crypticerya | |
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| Genista giant scale insect (Crypticerya genistae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Monophlebidae |
| Genus: | Crypticerya Cockerell, 1895 |
Crypticerya is a genus of scale insects belonging to the family Monophlebidae. When the genus was revived in 2008, it included 22 species, all found in the Americas.[1] As of 2024[update], there are 28 described species.[2]
History
[edit]The name was established by Cockerell in 1895 as a subgenus of Icerya.[2] It was elevated to a genus in 1899, synonymized in 1926, and revived as a genus in 2008.[2]
List of species
[edit]- Crypticerya abrahami (Newstead, 1917)
- Crypticerya aegyptiensis (Foldi, 2010)
- Crypticerya brasiliensis (Hempel, 1900)
- Crypticerya bursera (Unruh, 2008)
- Crypticerya colimensis (Cockerell, 1902)
- Crypticerya flava (Hempel, 1920)
- Crypticerya flocculosa (Hempel, 1932)
- Crypticerya genistae (Hempel, 1912)
- Crypticerya littoralis (Cockerell, 1898)
- Crypticerya luederwaldti (Hempel, 1918)
- Crypticerya marocensis (Foldi, 2010)
- Crypticerya mexicana (Cockerell & Parrott in Cockerell, 1899)
- Crypticerya minima (Morrison, 1919)
- Crypticerya montserratensis (Riley & Howard, 1890)
- Crypticerya morrilli (Cockerell, 1914)
- Crypticerya multicicatrices (Kondo & Unruh, 2009)
- Crypticerya ovivivipara (Gavrilov-Zimin, 2018)
- Crypticerya palmeri (Riley & Howard, 1890)
- Crypticerya pimentae (Newstead, 1917)
- Crypticerya rileyi (Cockerell, 1895)
- Crypticerya rosae (Riley & Howard, 1890)
- Crypticerya similis (Morrison, 1927)
- Crypticerya subandina (Leonardi, 1911)
- Crypticerya tabernicola (Ferris, 1921)
- Crypticerya thibaudi (Foldi, 2010)
- Crypticerya townsendi (Cockerell, 1896)
- Crypticerya tuberculata (Morrison, 1941)
- Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell, 1914)
References
[edit]- ^ Unruh, Corinne M. (30 April 2008). "A taxonomic review of the Crypticerya species (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae) of the southwestern United States and Mexico, including description of a new species from Baja California". Zootaxa. 1759 (1): 1–42. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1759.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ a b c "Crypticerya Cockerell, 1895". ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
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