Desmococcus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamilia: Coccoidea
Familia: Pityococcidae
Genus: Desmococcus
Species: D. captivus – D. sedentarius
Name
Desmococcus McKenzie, 1942

The scale insect genus Desmococcus is a group in the family Pityococcidae, comprising two species from the western United States, feeding on pines.[3] The type species is Desmococcus captivus[4]
Notes

"Desmococcus captivus McKenzie". Scale Net, United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 15 October 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
"Desmococcus sedentarius McKenzie". Scale Net, United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
Gill, Raymond J. (1993). The scale insects of California. Part 2. The minor families (Homoptera: Coccoidea) (PDF). Technical series in Agricultural biosystematics and plant pathology. Sacramento, California: California Department of Food and Agriculture. p. 36. OCLC 29329396.

"Desmococcus McKenzie". United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2013.

References

McKenzie, H. L. (1942). "New species of pine-infesting Margarodidae from California and southwestern United States (Homoptera; Coccoidca; Margarodidae)". Microentomology. 7 (1): 1–18.
Ben-Dov, Y. (2011). "An updated checklist of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Margarodidae sensu lato group". Zootaxa. 2859: 1–62, page 46. Abstract and Table of Contents