Mariacoccus

Chris J. Hodgson & Douglas J. Williams, 2018, Revision of the soft scale genus Paralecanium (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae) with the introduction of three new genera and twenty new species, Zootaxa 4443 (1), pp. 1-162 : 140

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4443.1.1

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8CF7D069-783C-4D20-8A10-6987529AB4BE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5981558

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A687D0-7BF3-038D-EEA8-FBCFFABCFAB0

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Mariacoccus
status

gen. nov.

MARIACOCCUS Hodgson & Williams gen. n.

Type species: Paralecanium marianum Cockerell, 1902 .

Generic diagnosis. As this is a monotypic genus, the species description acts as the generic diagnosis.

Name derivation. The generic name Mariacoccus is composed of Maria -, taken from Maria in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, and - coccus , Latin (masculine, meaning a grain or seed), a name commonly used for scale insects.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Coccidae

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