Puto

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: Putoidae
Genus: Puto
Subgenera: P. (Ceroputo) – P. (Puto)
Overview of species

P. acirculus – P. albicans – P. ambiguus – P. antennatus – P. antioquensis – P. arctostaphyli
Name

Puto Signoret, 1876

Type species: Putonia antennata Signoret, by monotypy
Synonyms

Putonia (Signoret) Signoret, 1875 (preoccupied by Putonia Stål, 1872 (Heteroptera)).
Puto Signoret, 1876 (Replacement name for Putonia Signoret, 1875)
Macrocerococcus Leonardi, 1907 (synonymized by Ferris, 1950:)

References
Additional references

Gavrilov-Zimin, I.A. & Danzig, E.M. 2012. Taxonomic position of the genus Puto Signoret (Homoptera: Coccinea: Pseudococcidae) and separation of higher taxa in Coccinea. Zoosystematica Rossica 22(1): 97–111. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Williams, D.J. et al. 2011: A study of the scale insect genera Puto Signoret (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Putoidae) and Ceroputo Šulc (Pseudococcidae) with a comparison to Phenacoccus Cockerell (Pseudococcidae). Zootaxa, 2802: 1–26. Preview PDF