Eriococcus Targioni Tozzetti

Kozár, Ferenc, Williams, Douglas J. & Benedicty, Zsuzsanna Konczné, 2009, A new genus and four new species of the scale insect family Eriococcidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from the Austro-Oriental Region., Zootaxa 1979, pp. 1-15 : 5

Eriococcus Targioni Tozzetti

Type species: Eriococcus (Coccus) buxi Fonscolombe

The genus Eriococcus currently contains several hundred species and is almost certainly paraphyletic, although the defining characters for possible generic divisions are still uncertain. As indicated in the Introduction, Cook et al. (2002) consider that species in this genus fall within three quite separate clades. The relationships of the species described as new below is unknown but is morphologically similar to E. araucariae Maskell.