Conchaspididae
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Conchaspididae
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Conchaspididae is a small and relatively unstudied family of scale insects.[2]
Description
Members of the family Conchaspididae secrete a waxy scale, in common with other scale insects, but the secreted scle does not include the exuvia.[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]
References
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