Coccus is a genus of scale insects in the family Coccidae. Several species, such as Coccus viridis, a major pest of coffee, are major agricultural pests.[1] The type species is Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Coccidae |
| Genus: | Coccus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Species
edit- Coccus acaciae (Newstead, 1917)[2]
- Coccus bromeliae Bouché, 1833[3]
- Coccus capparidis (Green, 1904)[4]
- Coccus celatus De Lotto, 1960[5]
- Coccus gymnospori (Green, 1908)[6]
- Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus, 1758, the brown soft scale[7]
- Coccus longulus (Douglas, 1887)[8]
- Coccus penangensis Morrison, 1921[9]
- Coccus pseudelongatus (Brain, 1920)[10]
- Coccus pseudohesperidum (Cockerell, 1895)[11]
- Coccus pseudomagnoliarum (Kuwana, 1914)[12]
- Coccus formicarii (Green, 1896)[13]
- Coccus viridis (Green, 1889)[14]
Former species
edit- Coccus aceris Fabricius, 1794 synonym for Eulecanium tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus alni Modeer, 1778 synonym for Eulecanium tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus arens Hodgson, 1968 synonym for Coccus capparidis (Green, 1904)
- Coccus arundinariae Sanders, 1906 synonym for Maacoccus arundinariae (Green, 1904)
- Coccus bauhini Targioni Tozzetti, 1867 synonym for Kermes ilicis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus bicruciatus Sanders, 1906 synonym for Maacoccus bicruciatus (Green, 1904)
- Coccus cacti Cockerell, 1893 synonym for Dactylopius coccus Costa, 1829
- Coccus celticum Takahashi, 1955 synonym for Coccus longulus (Douglas, 1887)
- Coccus celtium Sasscer, 1911 synonym for Coccus longulus (Douglas, 1887)
- Coccus coffeae Kirkaldy, 1902 synonym for Saissetia coffeae (Walker, 1852)
- Coccus cypraeola Dalman, 1826 synonym for Eulecanium tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus deltae Corseuil & Barbosa, 1971 synonym for Parthenolecanium perlatum (Cockerell, 1898)
- Coccus diversipes Cockerell, 1905 synonym for Kilifia diversipes (Cockerell, 1905)
- Coccus elongatus Sanders, 1909 synonym for Coccus longulus (Douglas, 1887)
- Coccus fagi Baerensprung, 1849 ambiguous synonym for Cryptococcus fagisuga Lindinger, 1936
- Coccus fagi Walker, 1852 ambiguous synonym for Cryptococcus fagisuga Lindinger, 1936
- Coccus ficus Fernald, 1903 synonym for Coccus longulus (Douglas, 1887)
- Coccus frontalis Sanders, 1906 synonym for Coccus longulus (Douglas, 1887)
- Coccus fuscus Gmelin, 1790 synonym for Eulecanium tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus iceryi Tao et al., 1983 synonym for Pulvinaria iceryi (Signoret, 1869)
- Coccus ilicis Linnaeus, 1758 synonym for Kermes ilicis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus impar Bodkin, 1917 synonym for Mesolecanium impar (Cockerell, 1898)
- Coccus lacca Kerr, 1782 synonym for Kerria lacca (Kerr, 1782)
- Coccus mali Schrank, 1781 synonym for Eulecanium tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus marsupialis Sanders, 1906 synonym for Marsipococcus marsupialis (Green, 1904)
- Coccus namunakuli Ali, 1971 synonym for Parlatoria namunakuli (Green, 1922)
- Coccus perlatus Fernald, 1903 synonym for Parthenolecanium perlatum (Cockerell, 1898)
- Coccus polonicus Linnaeus, 1758 synonym for Porphyrophora polonica (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus pyri Schrank, 1801 synonym for Eulecanium tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus radicum Beckmann, 1790 synonym for Porphyrophora polonica (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus rubi Schrank, 1801 synonym for Eulecanium tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus salicum Fabricius, 1781 synonym for Eulecanium tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus tiliae Linnaeus, 1758 synonym for Eulecanium tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Coccus xylostei Schrank, 1801 synonym for Eulecanium tiliae (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
edit- ^ Ananthakrishnan, Taracad Narayanan (2004). "Family Coccidae (soft scales, wax scales, tortoise scales)". In Nayar, K. Karunakaran; Ananthakrishnan, Taracad Narayanan; David, B. Vasantharaj (eds.). General and applied entomology (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill. p. 437. ISBN 978-0-07-043435-6.
- ^ Ben-Dov, Yair (1977). "Taxonomy of the long brown scale Coccus longulus (Douglas), stat. n.(Homoptera: Coccidae)". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 67 (1): 89–95. doi:10.1017/S0007485300010919.
- ^ Ben-Dov, Yair; Cox, Jennifer M. (1990). "The identity of five species of scale insects (Hem., Homoptera, Coccoidea), living on ornamental plants, originally described by PF Bouché". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 126: 79–84.
- ^ Sanders, James Glossbrenner (1906). Catalogue of recently described Coccidae. United States Department of Agriculture Technical Series, number 12, part 1. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. p. 372.
- ^ De Lotto, Giovanni (1960). "The Green Scales of Coffee in Africa South of the Sahara (Homoptera, Coccidae)". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 51 (2): 389–403. doi:10.1017/S0007485300058041.
- ^ Sanders, James Glossbrenner (1909). The euonymus scale (Chionaspis euonymi Comstock). United States Department of Agriculture Circular 114. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture. Google Books - no preview
- ^ Bartlett, Blair Ralph (1978). "Coccidae". In Clausen, Curtis P. (ed.). Introduced Parasites and Predators of Arthropod Pests and Weeds: A world review. Agriculture Handbook No. 480. Washington, D.C.: Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. pp. 57–74, view=1up, seq=68 page 60.
- ^ Hall, Wilfrid John (1922). Observations on the Coccidae of Egypt. Technical and Scientific Service Bulletin, number 22. Cairo: Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, Government Press.
- ^ Ben-Dov, Yair (1993). A Systematic Catalogue of the Soft Scale Insects of the World (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae): With Data on Geographical Distribution, Host Plants, Biology, and Economics Importance. Flora & Fauna Handbook, No. 9. Gainesville, Florida: CRC Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-877743-13-9.
- ^ De Lotto, Giovanni (1957). "On some Ethiopian species of the genus Coccus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)". Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa. 20: 295–314.
- ^ Fernald, Maria Elizabeth Smith (1903). A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Number 88. Amherst, Massachusetts: Carpenter and Morehouse. p. 173, Item 860. book at Google Books
- ^ Bartlett, Blair Ralph (1978). Introduced parasites and predators of arthropod pests and weeds:a world review. Washington, D.C.: Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. p. 61.
- ^ Lin, Yen-Po; Kondo, Takumasa; Gullan, Penny; Cook, Lyn G. (2013). "Delimiting genera of scale insects: molecular and morphological evidence for synonymising Taiwansaissetia Tao, Wong and Chang with Coccus Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae)". Systematic Entomology. 38 (2): 249–264. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00664.x.
- ^ Fernald 1903, p. 174
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