Rastrococcus Ferris, 1954: 55

Williams, Douglas J. & Denno, Barbara D., 2024, New genus names, family-group names and misspellings published between 2020 and 2023 in the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha), Zootaxa 5415 (2), pp. 347-350 : 348

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scientific name	Rastrococcus Ferris, 1954: 55
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Pseudococcidae (neococcoids). Rastrococcinae Choi & Lee, 2022: 366.

This new subfamily, with the subfamilies Pseudococcinae and Phenacoccinae, is the third to be established in the family Pseudococcidae .

Choi, J. & Lee, S. (2022) Higher classification of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) inferred from molecular phylogeny and their endosymbionts. Systematic Entomology, 47 (2), 354 - 370. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / syen. 12534

Ferris, G. F. (1954) Report upon scale insects collected in China (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Part V. (Contribution No. 89). Microentomology, 19, 51 - 66.