Conchaspididae

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Conchaspididae is a small family of scale insects known as false armoured scales because of their resemblance to Diaspididae (but not incorporating exuviae on their body).[2]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hemiptera
Suborder:Sternorrhyncha
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Conchaspididae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Conchaspididae
Green, 1896
Genera[1]
  • Asceloconchaspis Williams, 1992
  • Conchaspis Cockerell, 1893
  • Fagisuga Lindinger, 1909
  • Paraconchaspis Mamet, 1959
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Description

Members of the family Conchaspididae secrete a waxy scale, in common with other scale insects, but the secreted scale does not include the exuviae.[3]

Ecology

Five of the 30 species are parasites on palms, but none are considered pests.[4] Conchaspis cordiae infests mahogany trees and has been accidentally introduced to Florida from the Caribbean, but does not appear to cause serious damage.[2]

Taxonomic history

Carl Linnaeus described a single member of the family, now called Conchaspis capensis, in his Centuria Insectorum, but no further species were described until the 1890s.[5] Eleven of the 29 species currently recognised were insects from Madagascar, described by Raymond Mamet. This probably reflects the sampling effort rather than a particular diversity of conchaspidid scale insects on Madagascar.[5]

Conchaspididae was first recognised as a subfamily of the family Coccidae, but it was raised to the rank of family by Gordon Floyd Ferris in 1937.[5]

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