Conchaspididae

Conchaspididae
Conchaspididae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Conchaspididae
Green, 1896
Genera [1]
  • Asceloconchaspis Williams, 1992
  • Conchaspis Cockerell, 1893
  • Fagisuga Lindinger, 1909
  • Paraconchaspis Mamet, 1959

Conchaspididae is a small and relatively unstudied family of scale insects.[2]

Contents

Description

Members of the family Conchaspididae secrete a waxy scale, in common with other scale insects, but the secreted scle does not include the exuvia.[3]

Ecology

Five of the 30 species are parasites on palms, but none are considered pests.[4] Conchaspis cordiae infests mahogany trees and has been accidentally introduced to Florida from the Caribbean, but does not appear to cause serious damage.[2]

Taxonomic history

Carl Linnaeus described a single member of the family, now called Conchaspis capensis, in his Centuria Insectorum, but no further species were described until the 1890s.[5] Eleven of the 29 species currently recognised were insects from Madagascar, described by Raymond Mamet. This probably reflects the sampling effort rather than a particular diversity of conchaspidid scale insects on Madagascar.[5]

Conchaspididae was first recognised as a subfamily of the family Coccidae, but it was raised to the rank of family by Gordon Floyd Ferris in 1937.[5]

References

  1. ^ "A new genus and species of Conchaspididae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from Florida, remarkable in lacking legs". Journal of Natural History 26 (6): 13251331. 1992. doi:10.1080/00222939200770751. 
  2. ^ a b John L. Capinera, ed (2008). "West Indies Mahogany Scale, Conchaspis cordiae Mamet (Hemiptera, Conchaspididae)". Encyclopedia of Entomology, Volume 1. Gale virtual reference library (2nd ed.). Springer. pp22652266. ISBN 9781402062421. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=i9ITMiiohVQC. 
  3. ^ Gordon Floyd Ferris (1955). "Conchaspididae". Atlas of the Scale Insects of North America, Volume VII. Stanford University Press. pp6668. ISBN 9780804716673. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RAurAAAAIAAJ. 
  4. ^ F. W. Howard, D. Moore, R. M. Giblin-Davis & R. G. Abad (2001). "Conchaspididae". Insects on palms. CABI Publishing Series. CAB International. pp189. ISBN 9780851993263. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IL5jorrwFLYC. 
  5. ^ a b c Yair Ben-Dov (2006). "Conchaspididae". A systematic catalogue of eight scale insect families (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the world: Aclerdidae, Asterolecaniidae, Beesoniidae, Carayonemidae, Conchaspididae, Dactylopiidae, Kerriidae and Lecanodiaspididae. Elsevier. pp183. ISBN 9780444528360. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qBAHchSfZJIC. 

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