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Asterolecaniidae  Cockerell, 1896
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1233582

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s): Asterolecaniidae Berlese, 1898
  
    Polliniini Borchsenius, 1960
  
    Asterodiaspidina Tang and Hao, 1995
  
  Common Name(s): pit scales [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2024   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderAcercaria   
                               OrderHemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 – true bugs, hemipterans  
                                  SuborderSternorrhyncha   
                                     SuperfamilyCoccoidea Fallén, 1814 – scales, mealybugs, coccids  
                                        FamilyAsterolecaniidae Cockerell, 1896 – pit scales  
    Direct Children:  
                                           GenusAbditicoccus Lambdin and Kosztarab, 1975  
                                           GenusAmorphococcus Green, 1902  
                                           GenusArgenta Granara de Willink in Granara de Willink et al., 2023  
                                           GenusAsterodiaspis Signoret, 1877  
                                           GenusAsterolecanium Targioni Tozzetti, 1868  
                                           GenusBambusaspis Cockerell, 1902  
                                           GenusEndernia Danzig, 1971  
                                           GenusForticauda Gavrilov-Zimin, 2019  
                                           GenusFrenchia Maskell, 1892  
                                           GenusGrammococcus Miller and Lambdin, 1978  
                                           GenusHsuia Ferris, 1950  
                                           GenusHyalococcus Borchsenius, 1950  
                                           GenusLiuaspis Borchsenius, 1960  
                                           GenusMycetococcus Ferris, 1918  
                                           GenusMycococcus Ferris, 1952  
                                           GenusNeoasterodiaspis Borchsenius, 1960  
                                           GenusOacoccus Williams, 2007  
                                           GenusPalmaspis Bodenheimer, 1951  
                                           GenusPauroaspis Tang, 1995  
                                           GenusPlanchonia Signoret, 1870  
                                           GenusPolea Green, 1922  
                                           GenusPollinia Targioni Tozzetti, 1868  
                                           GenusRussellaspis Bodenheimer, 1951  
                                           GenusSclerosococcus McKenzie, 1958  
                                           GenusTrachycoccus Borchsenius, 1950  
                                           GenusWuelagatis Jian and Xing, 2022  
       

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  Source: ScaleNet, 8/2024, Database (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2024   
  Notes: García Morales, M., B. D. Denno, D. R. Miller, G. L. Miller, Y. Ben-Dov, and N. B. Hardy. 2016. ScaleNet: A literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics. Database. doi: 10.1093/database/bav118. https://scalenet.info   
  Reference for: Asterolecaniidae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Williams, D. J.   
  Publication Date: 2013   
  Article/Chapter Title: Family-group names in the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea) - a supplement   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 3616, no. 4   
  Page(s): 325-344   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5334   
  Notes: doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.4.2   
  Reference for: Asterolecaniidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Williams, Douglas John   
  Publication Date: 1969   
  Article/Chapter Title: The family-group names of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, vol. 23, no. 8   
  Page(s): 315-341   
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  Notes: Available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2313954   
  Reference for: Asterolecaniidae   
       

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