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Icerya  Signoret, 1876
Taxonomic Serial No.: 109204

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Newsteadiella MacGillivray, 1921
  
    Crossotosoma Douglas, 1890
  
    Auloicerya H. Morrison in H. Morrison and E. Morrison, 1923
  
    Pericerya Silvestri, 1939
  
  Common Name(s): cottony cushion scales [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderAcercaria   
                               OrderHemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 – true bugs, hemipterans  
                                  SuborderSternorrhyncha   
                                     SuperfamilyCoccoidea Fallén, 1814 – scales, mealybugs, coccids  
                                        FamilyMonophlebidae Signoret, 1875  
                                           GenusIcerya Signoret, 1876 – cottony cushion scales  
    Direct Children:  
                                              Species Icerya acaciae (H. Morrison and E. Morrison, 1923)  
                                              Species Icerya aegyptiaca (Douglas, 1890) – breadfruit mealybug, Egyptian cottony cushion scale, Egyptian Icerya, Egyptian mealybug, Cochinilla acanalada de Egipto, Egyptian cushion scale, Egyptian fluted scale, ejiputo-watafuki-kaigaramushi 
                                              Species Icerya assamensis (Rao, 1951)  
                                              Species Icerya australis Maskell, 1894  
                                              Species Icerya callitri (Froggatt, 1923)  
                                              Species Icerya chilensis Hempel, 1920  
                                              Species Icerya clauseni (Rao, 1951)  
                                              Species Icerya corticalis Vayssière, 1926  
                                              Species Icerya crocea Green, 1896  
                                              Species Icerya formicarum Newstead, 1897  
                                              Species Icerya gaponiana Gavrilov-Zimin, 2013  
                                              Species Icerya hanoiensis Jashenko and Danzig, 1992  
                                              Species Icerya imperatae Rao, 1951  
                                              Species Icerya insulans Hempel, 1923  
                                              Species Icerya jacobsoni Green, 1913  
                                              Species Icerya jaihind (Rao, 1951)  
                                              Species Icerya koebelei Maskell, 1892  
                                              Species Icerya kumari (Rao, 1951)  
                                              Species Icerya mangiferae (Tang and Hao, 1995)  
                                              Species Icerya menoni Rao, 1951  
                                              Species Icerya minor Green, 1908  
                                              Species Icerya morrisoni Rao, 1951  
                                              Species Icerya natalensis (Douglas, 1888)  
                                              Species Icerya nuda Green, 1930  
                                              Species Icerya nudata Maskell, 1896  
                                              Species Icerya oculicicatricata Gavrilov-Zimin, 2018  
                                              Species Icerya paulista Hempel, 1920  
                                              Species Icerya pilosa Green, 1896  
                                              Species Icerya pulchra (Leonardi, 1907)  
                                              Species Icerya purchasi Maskell, 1879 – Australian fluted scale, Australische wollschildlaus, citrus fluted scale, cochenille australienne, cochinilla acanalada de Australia, conchuela acanalada de los cítricos, cottony cushion scale, escama algodonosa, escama australiana, pulgao branco da laranjeira, white scale, cottony cushion scale 
                                              Species Icerya samaraia (H. Morrison, 1927) – Cochinilla acanalada Samaraia 
                                              Species Icerya schrottkyi Hempel, 1900  
                                              Species Icerya seychellarum (Westwood, 1855) – common white mealybug, seychellarum mealybug, Cochenille farineuse des Seychelles, cochinilla de las Seychelles, ki-iro-watafuki-kaigaramushi, Okada cottony-cushion scale, Seychelles fluted scale, silvery cushion scale, yellow cottony cushion scale 
                                              Species Icerya siamensis Gavrilov-Zimin, 2018  
                                              Species Icerya sumatrana Rao, 1951  
                                              Species Icerya travancorensis Rao, 1951  
                                              Species Icerya viraktamathi Joshi, 2021  
                                              Species Icerya zimmermanni Green, 1932  
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Source: ScaleNet, 2/2025, Database (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: García Morales, M., B. D. Denno, D. R. Miller, G. L. Miller, Y. Ben-Dov, and N. B. Hardy. 2016. ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics. Database. doi: 10.1093/database/bav118. https://scalenet.info   
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