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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Scales and Mealybugs (Coccoidea) » Mealybugs (Pseudococcidae)

Family Pseudococcidae - Mealybugs

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Life Cycle · Works Cited
bugs on catnip plant Mealybug... fuzzy white insects found on croton linearis Sagebrush Mealybug, Amonostherium lichtensioides, on California Sagebrush (Artemisia californica) - Amonostherium lichtensioides - female Longtailed mealybug, Pseudococcus longispinus - Pseudococcus longispinus - female Mealybugs Creature with eggs - female Fuzzy larva on arrowwood, Viburnum dentatum - Phenacoccus aceris
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)
Superfamily Coccoidea (Scales and Mealybugs)
Family Pseudococcidae (Mealybugs)
Numbers
the second largest family of Coccoidea, with >2,200 spp. in ~280 genera worldwide(1)
Identification
Females, body elongate-oval, segmented. Have well developed legs.
Key to common spp.
Life Cycle
Some viviparous, others oviparous(2)
Works Cited
1.ScaleNet
2.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
By Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 23 February, 2006 - 4:00pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 23 October, 2011 - 5:23pm

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