Marsipococcus Cockerell & Bueker, 1930, 1994

Joshi, Sunil, 2020, A new species of Marsipococcus Cockerell & Bueker (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha Coccidae) infesting Piper nigrum L. in India, Zootaxa 4820 (3), pp. 572-580 : 573

Marsipococcus Cockerell & Bueker, 1930

Type species: Lecanium marsupiale Green

Generic diagnosis Łagowska et al. (2017) provided the following generic diagnosis of Marsipococcus : (i) dorsal derm with radial lines extending mesad from the margin; (ii) a group of ventral tubular ducts present on either side of the genital opening; (iii) each stigmatic cleft with 2 stigmatic spines, 1 on the anterior margin and the other on the posterior margin; (iv) preopercular pores present or absent; (v) each anal plate without a subdiscal seta; (vi) multilocular disc pores, when present, each with 5 or 6 loculi; (vii) anal cleft with sclerotization around its anterior margin; (viii) marginal setae strongly spinose and pointed, subequal to or longer than stigmatic setae; and (ix) tibia and tarsus fused, without segmentation.