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Coccus  Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomic Serial No.: 200853

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Lecanium Burmeister, 1835
  
    Taiwansaissetia Tao, Wong and Chang, 1983
  
    Calymmata Costa, 1828
  
    Calypticus Costa, 1829
  
  Common Name(s):    
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2024   
       

 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  
                                        FamilyCoccidae Fallén, 1814 – soft scales, wax scales, tortoise scales  
                                           GenusCoccus Linnaeus, 1758  
    Direct Children:  
                                              Species Coccus acaciae (Newstead, 1917)  
                                              Species Coccus acrossus De Lotto, 1969  
                                              Species Coccus aequale (Newstead, 1917)  
                                              Species Coccus africanus (Newstead, 1898)  
                                              Species Coccus almoraensis Avasthi and Shafee, 1983  
                                              Species Coccus alpinus De Lotto, 1960  
                                              Species Coccus anneckei De Lotto, 1962  
                                              Species Coccus antidesmae (Green, 1896)  
                                              Species Coccus asiaticus Lindinger, 1932  
                                              Species Coccus australis (Walker, 1852)  
                                              Species Coccus brasiliensis Fonseca, 1957  
                                              Species Coccus bromeliae Bouché, 1833  
                                              Species Coccus cajani (Newstead, 1917)  
                                              Species Coccus capparidis (Green, 1904) – capparis soft scale 
                                              Species Coccus caudatus Walker, 1852  
                                              Species Coccus caviramicolus Morrison, 1921  
                                              Species Coccus celatus De Lotto, 1960  
                                              Species Coccus cephalotaxus Cao and Feng in Cao et al., 2022  
                                              Species Coccus circularis Morrison, 1921  
                                              Species Coccus colemani Kannan, 1918  
                                              Species Coccus deformosus (Newstead, 1920)  
                                              Species Coccus delottoi Matile-Ferrero and Le Ruyet, 1985 – DeLotto iceplant scale 
                                              Species Coccus discrepans (Green, 1904)  
                                              Species Coccus duartei (Almeida, 1969)  
                                              Species Coccus ehretiae (Brain, 1920)  
                                              Species Coccus elatensis Ben-Dov, 1981  
                                              Species Coccus erythrinae (Ihering, 1897)  
                                              Species Coccus ficicola Choi and Lee, 2018  
                                              Species Coccus formicarii (Green, 1896)  
                                              Species Coccus giliomeei Lagowska and Hodgson, 2019  
                                              Species Coccus guerinii (Signoret, 1869)  
                                              Species Coccus gymnospori (Green, 1908)  
                                              Species Coccus heckrothi Gullan and Kondo in Gullan et al., 2018  
                                              Species Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus, 1758 – brown soft scale, Cochinilla blanda de los agrios, conchuela blanda, conchuela blanda de los citrus, The Coccus of the greenhouses, qenima huma raqa, Chermes des hespérides, cocciniglia degli agrumi, myagkaya lozhnoschitovka, Orangenfägad sköldlus, Orangenschildlaus, sagte dopluis, yumusak kosnil 
                                              Species Coccus hordeolum Dalman, 1826  
                                              Species Coccus illuppalamae (Green, 1922)  
                                              Species Coccus incisus (King in Cockerell, 1902)  
                                              Species Coccus inquilinus (Newstead, 1920)  
                                              Species Coccus insolens (King in Cockerell, 1902)  
                                              Species Coccus inyangombae Hodgson, 1967  
                                              Species Coccus jaculator (Green and Laing, 1924)  
                                              Species Coccus kosztarabi Avasthi and Shafee, 1984  
                                              Species Coccus lambirensis Gullan and Kondo in Gullan et al., 2018  
                                              Species Coccus latioperculatum (Green, 1922)  
                                              Species Coccus leurus De Lotto, 1966  
                                              Species Coccus lidgetti (Fernald, 1903)  
                                              Species Coccus litzeae Rutherford, 1915  
                                              Species Coccus longulus (Douglas, 1887) – long brown scale, escama blanda alargada, futonaga-kaigaramushi 
                                              Species Coccus lumpurensis Takahashi, 1952  
                                              Species Coccus macarangae Morrison, 1921  
                                              Species Coccus macarangicolus Takahashi, 1952  
                                              Species Coccus malloti (Takahashi, 1956) – Akamegashiwa-kata-kaigaramushi 
                                              Species Coccus melaleucae (Maskell, 1898)  
                                              Species Coccus milanjianus Hodgson, 1968  
                                              Species Coccus moestus De Lotto, 1959 – moestus soft scale 
                                              Species Coccus muiri Kotinsky, 1908  
                                              Species Coccus multisetus Wang and Feng, 2012  
                                              Species Coccus murex Hodgson, 1969  
                                              Species Coccus nanningensis Cao and Feng in Cao et al., 2022  
                                              Species Coccus nyika Hodgson, 1970  
                                              Species Coccus ophiorrhizae (Green, 1896)  
                                              Species Coccus opimus (Green, 1913)  
                                              Species Coccus paradeformosus (Fonseca, 1975)  
                                              Species Coccus penangensis Morrison, 1921  
                                              Species Coccus planchonii (Targioni Tozzetti, 1868)  
                                              Species Coccus praetermissus Lin and Tanaka in Lin et al., 2017  
                                              Species Coccus pruni Burmeister, 1849  
                                              Species Coccus pseudelongatus (Brain, 1920)  
                                              Species Coccus pseudhesperidum (Cockerell, 1895) – orchid soft scale 
                                              Species Coccus pseudomagnoliarum (Kuwana, 1914) – citricola scale, grey citrus scale, Cochinilla blanda de los cítricos 
                                              Species Coccus pseudotumuliferus Gullan and Kondo in Gullan et al., 2018  
                                              Species Coccus ramakrishnai (Ramakrishna Ayyar, 1919)  
                                              Species Coccus rhodesiensis (Hall, 1935)  
                                              Species Coccus rubellus (Cockerell, 1893)  
                                              Species Coccus saltuarius Hodgson, 1968  
                                              Species Coccus schini (Cockerell, 1893)  
                                              Species Coccus secretus Morrison, 1921  
                                              Species Coccus sectilis De Lotto, 1966  
                                              Species Coccus smaragdinus De Lotto, 1965  
                                              Species Coccus sociabilis Hodgson, 1969  
                                              Species Coccus sordidus De Lotto, 1957  
                                              Species Coccus subacutus (Newstead, 1920)  
                                              Species Coccus subhemisphaericus (Newstead, 1917)  
                                              Species Coccus sulawesicus Gavrilov-Zimin, 2013  
                                              Species Coccus synapheae (Froggatt, 1915)  
                                              Species Coccus takanoi Takahashi, 1932  
                                              Species Coccus tangandae Hodgson, 1967  
                                              Species Coccus tenebricophilus (Green, 1904)  
                                              Species Coccus tumuliferus Morrison, 1921  
                                              Species Coccus viridis (Green, 1889) – green scale, escama verde, green coffee scale, lapa-verde, Cochenille verte du caféier, cochinilla verde del café, cochonilha-verde, groene dopluis, Grüne Kaffeeschildlaus, midori-kata-kaigaramushi 
                                              Species Coccus viridulus De Lotto, 1960  
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Coccus   
       
  Source: ScaleNet, 8/2024, Database (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2024   
  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   
  Reference for: Coccus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Ben-Dov, Yair  
  Publication Date: 1993   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: A Systematic Catalogue of the Soft Scale Insects of the World (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)   
  Page(s): xxviii + 536   
  Publisher: Sandhill Crane Press, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Gainesville, Florida, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-877743-13-5   
  Notes: Flora & Fauna Handbook No. 9   
  Reference for: Coccus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Williams, Douglas J., and Yair Ben-Dov  
  Publication Date: 2009   
  Article/Chapter Title: A review of species names combined with the genus name Coccus Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 2285   
  Page(s): 1-64   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 9781869774349, 1175-5334  
  Notes: Available online at https://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2009/zt02285.html ; doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2285.1.1   
  Reference for: Coccus   
       

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