Lecanodiaspididae
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| Lecanodiaspis prosopidis on green ash branch. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Coccomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Coccoidea |
| Family: | Lecanodiaspididae Borchsenius (1965)[1]
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Lecanodiaspididae is a family of scale insects commonly known as false pit scales or lecanodiaspidids. Members of this family come from all parts of the world but are most numerous in the Far East.[2]
Description
Adults false pit scales are yellow to reddish-brown and have a waxy, papery test with about eight transverse ridges giving it a corrugated appearance. There is a longitudinal ridge in the center of the test and an anal opening with rolled up edges at the posterior end.[2]
Life cycle
Members of this family of scales mostly live on the trunks and branches of shrubs and
eggs under the mother's test. Males exist in most of the species. Many of the species are guarded by ants which are attracted by their honeydew.[2]
Genera
- Anomalococcus
- Brookesiella
- Celaticoccus
- Cosmococcus
- Cresococcus
- Gallinococcus
- Lecanodiaspis
- Prosopophora
- Psoraleococcus
- Pterococcus
- Stictacanthus
- Virgulicoccus
References
Wikispecies has information related to Lecanodiaspididae.
- ^ Borchsenius, N.S. 1965. [Essay on the classification of the armored scale insects (Homoptera, Coccoidea, Diaspididae).] (In Russian). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenye 44: 208-214.
- ^ a b c USDA Agricultural Research Service Archived 2010-10-11 at the Wayback Machine