Platycoelostoma

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: Callipappidae
Genus: Platycoelostoma
Species: P. compressa – P. rauppi – P. tasmanicum

[list of species after Foldi (2009)]
Name

Platycoelostoma Morrison, 1923
Gender

neuter
Type species

Coelostoma compressum Maskell, 1892, by original designation

References

Foldi, I. 2009: Archaeococcoid scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from the tropical high mountains of the Andean Cordillera, South America. Zootaxa, 2300: 1–38. Abstract & excerpt
Gullan, P.J.; Sjaarda, A.W. 2001: Trans-Tasman Platycoelostoma Morrison (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Margarodidae) on endemic Cupressaceae, and the phylogenetic history of margarodids. Systematic entomology, 26: 257–278. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2001.00145.x
Morales, C.F. 1991: Margarodidae (Insecta: Hemiptera). Fauna of New Zealand, (21 )
Morrison, H.; Morrison, E.R. 1923: The scale insects of the sub-families Monophlebinae and Margarodinae treated by Maskell. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 62: 1–47.