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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » 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 Pseudococcidae - Ferrisia mealybug on cactus in OC Mealy bug on Scheflara - female Mealybugs Mealybugs found on Ruellia simplex stem Mealybug, and are those eggs? Pseudococcid
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
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 ~320 spp. in 53 genera in our area and >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
Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn. 2004. Brooks Cole.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 23 February, 2006 - 4:00pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 9 February, 2015 - 5:31pm

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