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Morganella (insect)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Suborder
  
Sternorrhyncha

Scientific name
  
Morganella

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Hemiptera

Superfamily
  
Coccoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
True bugs, Diaspidiotus, Aspidiotus, Diaspididae

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

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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

    • 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.

    References

    Morganella (insect) Wikipedia
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