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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


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Protostomia
	Superphylum	Ecdysozoa
	Phylum	Arthropoda – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods
	Subphylum	Hexapoda – hexapods
	Class	Insecta – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes
	Subclass	Pterygota – insects ailés, winged insects
	Infraclass	Neoptera – modern, wing-folding insects
	Superorder	Acercaria
	Order	Hemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 – true bugs, hemipterans
	Suborder	Sternorrhyncha
	Superfamily	Coccoidea Fallén, 1814 – scales, mealybugs, coccids
	Family	Monophlebidae Signoret, 1875
	Genus	Icerya Signoret, 1876 – cottony cushion scales
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	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 Vayssičre, 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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