Coccus (insecto)

Coccus

Taxonomía
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Arthropoda
Clase: Insecta
Orden: Hemiptera
Suborden: Homoptera
Superfamilia: Coccoidea
Familia: Coccidae
Género: Coccus
Linneus, 1758

Coccus es un género de cochinillas escamas en la familia Coccidae. Varias especies tales como Coccus viridis, una importante plaga del café, son plagas relevantes de la agricultura.[1]​ La especie tipo es Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus.

Especies

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Entre las especies de este género se cuentan:

Referencias

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  1. Ananthakrishnan, Taracad Narayanan (2004). «Family Coccidae (soft scales, wax scales, tortoise scales)». En Nayar, K. Karunakaran; Ananthakrishnan, Taracad Narayanan; David, B. Vasantharaj, eds. General and applied entomology (2nd edición). New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill. p. 437. ISBN 978-0-07-043435-6. 
  2. Ben-Dov, Yair (1977). «Taxonomy of the long brown scale Coccus longulus (Douglas), stat. n.(Homoptera: Coccidae)». Bulletin of Entomological Research 67 (1): 89-95. doi:10.1017/S0007485300010919. 
  3. Ben-Dov, Yair; Cox, Jennifer M. (1990). «The identity of five species of scale insects (Hem., Homoptera, Coccoidea), living on ornamental plants, originally described by PF Bouché». Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 126: 79-84. 
  4. Sanders, James Glossbrenner (1906). Catalogue of recently described Coccidae. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Series, number 12, part 1. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. p. 372. 
  5. De Lotto, Giovanni (1960). «The Green Scales of Coffee in Africa South of the Sahara (Homoptera, Coccidae)». Bulletin of Entomological Research 51: 389-403. doi:10.1017/S0007485300058041. 
  6. Sanders, James Glossbrenner (1909). The euonymus scale (Chionaspis euonymi Comstock). United States Department of Agriculture Circular 114. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture.  Google Books - no preview
  7. Bartlett, Blair Ralph (1978). «Coccidae». En Clausen, Curtis P., ed. Introduced Parasites and Predators of Arthropod Pests and Weeds: A world review. Agriculture Handbook No. 480. Washington, D.C.: Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. pp. 57–74, page 60. 
  8. Hall, Wilfrid John (1922). Observations on the Coccidae of Egypt. Technical and Scientific Service Bulletin, number 22. Cairo: Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Government Press. 
  9. Ben-Dov, Yair (1993). A Systematic Catalogue of the Soft Scale Insects of the World (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae): With Data on Geographical Distribution, Host Plants, Biology, and Economics Importance. Flora & Fauna Handbook, No. 9. Gainesville, Florida: CRC Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-877743-13-9. 
  10. De Lotto, Giovanni (1957). «On some Ethiopian species of the genus Coccus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)». Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 20: 295-314. 
  11. Fernald, Maria Elizabeth Smith (1903). A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Number 88. Amherst, Massachusetts: Carpenter and Morehouse. p. 173, Item 860.  book at Google Book
  12. Bartlett, 1978, p. 61
  13. Lin, Yen-Po; Kondo, Takumasa; Gullan, Penny; Cook, Lyn G. (2013). «Delimiting genera of scale insects: molecular and morphological evidence for synonymising Taiwansaissetia Tao, Wong and Chang with Coccus Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)». Systematic Entomology 38 (2): 249-264. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00664.x. 
  14. Fernald, 1903, p. 174