Xylococcus (insect)

Taxobox
name = "Xylococcus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hemiptera
subordo = Sternorrhyncha
superfamilia = Coccoidea
familia = Margarodidae
genus = "Xylococcus"
genus_authority = Löw, 1883
subdivision_ranks = species
subdivision ="Xylococcus filiferus"
"Xylococcus japonicus"
"Xylococcus quercicola"
and others

The scale insect genus "Xylococcus" is a small group in the family Margarodidae. Some of its constituent species are sometimes placed in a separate genus, "Xylococculus".