Coccus Linnaeus

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Coccus Linnaeus, 1758: 455 . Type species: Coccus hesperidum L.

Lecanium Burmeister, 1835: 69 . Unavailable name.

Taiwansaissetia Tao, Wong & Chang, 1983: 77; synonymy by Lin et al. 2013: 259.

A full synonymy for Coccus is available from ScaleNet (García Morales et al. 2017).

Adult females of all Coccus species from Macaranga share the features of areolations on the dorsal derm, a cluster of preopercular pores anterior to the anal plates, a broad submarginal band of a ventral tubular ducts, and pregenital disc-pores confined to the area lateral to the vulva. Prior to molecular phylogenetic studies, we considered erecting a new genus for these Macaranga -associated coccids but, as discussed in the Introduction above, their close genetic relationship to C. hesperidum (the type species of Coccus) made this action untenable, despite the morphological distinctness of the Macaranga coccid species from C. hesperidum . For example, adult females of C. hesperidum lack ventral tubular ducts in the submarginal area of the body (prominent in the Macaranga coccids) and possess dorsal tubercles (lacking in the Macaranga -associated species).