Morganella (insect)

Morganella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily:	Coccoidea
Family:	Diaspididae
Tribe:	Aspidiotini
Genus:	Morganella; Cockerell, 1897

Morganella is a genus of scale insects in the family Diaspididae. Morganella longispina is the type species.

It is named for Albert C. F. Morgan, the entomologist who first described the type species in 1889 (as Aspidiotus longispina).

Species

Morganella acaciae Munting, 1967
Morganella barbatissima Takagi, 2007
Morganella conspicua Brain, 1919
Morganella cueroensis Cockerell, 1899
Morganella longispina Morgan, 1889
Morganella polyctena Takagi, 2003
Morganella pseudospinigera Balachowsky, 1956
Morganella spinigera Lindinger, 1909

Other species formerly Morganella

Morganella vuilleti or Morganella vuilletti now Sudanaspis vuilleti Marchal, 1909^[1]

Takagi has suggested that the other African species, M. acaciae, M. conspicua, M. pseudospinigera and M. spinigera, as well as the anomalous Morganella cueroensis, do not belong in Morganella.^[2]

Notes

^ Moved by Chou, Io (周尧) (1985). Monographia Diaspididarum Sinensium 2 (中国盾蚧志 2) (in Chinese). Shaanxi: Eldonejo de Scienco kaj Tekniko. OCLC 182850159.
^ (Takagi, 2007)

References

Takagi, Sadao (2007). "A revised concept of Morganella, with other forms (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Diaspididae)" (PDF). Insecta Matsumurana. Series Entomology. New Series. 63: 51–65. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 December 2013.

External links

Data related to Morganella (Diaspididae) at Wikispecies

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[1] Moved by Chou, Io (周尧) (1985). Monographia Diaspididarum Sinensium 2 (中国盾蚧志 2) (in Chinese). Shaanxi: Eldonejo de Scienco kaj Tekniko. OCLC 182850159.

[2] (Takagi, 2007)

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