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Crypticerya  Cockerell, 1895
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1255855

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Steatococcus Ferris, 1921
  
    Proticerya Cockerell, 1895
  
    Icerya (Crypticerya) Cockerell, 1895
  
    Icerya (Proticerya) Cockerell, 1895
  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 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  
                                        FamilyMonophlebidae Signoret, 1875  
                                           GenusCrypticerya Cockerell, 1895  
    Direct Children:  
                                              Species Crypticerya abrahami (Newstead, 1917)  
                                              Species Crypticerya aegyptiensis Foldi, 2010 – Egyptian scale 
                                              Species Crypticerya brasiliensis (Hempel, 1900) – Cochinilla acanalada de Brasil, Brazilian fluted scale 
                                              Species Crypticerya bursera Unruh, 2008  
                                              Species Crypticerya colimensis (Cockerell, 1902)  
                                              Species Crypticerya flava (Hempel, 1920)  
                                              Species Crypticerya flocculosa (Hempel, 1932)  
                                              Species Crypticerya genistae (Hempel, 1912) – Cochinilla acanalada genista, giant scale, soybean scale, white scale 
                                              Species Crypticerya littoralis (Cockerell, 1898)  
                                              Species Crypticerya luederwaldti (Hempel, 1918)  
                                              Species Crypticerya marocensis Foldi, 2010  
                                              Species Crypticerya mexicana Cockerell and Parrott in Cockerell, 1899  
                                              Species Crypticerya minima (H. Morrison, 1919)  
                                              Species Crypticerya montserratensis (Riley and Howard, 1890) – Montserrat fluted scale 
                                              Species Crypticerya morrilli (Cockerell, 1914)  
                                              Species Crypticerya multicicatrices Kondo and Unruh, 2009 – The multicicatrices fluted scale, Cochinilla acanalada de Colombia 
                                              Species Crypticerya ovivivipara Gavrilov-Zimin, 2018  
                                              Species Crypticerya palmeri (Riley and Howard, 1890) – iceria de Palmer 
                                              Species Crypticerya pimentae (Newstead, 1917)  
                                              Species Crypticerya rileyi (Cockerell, 1895)  
                                              Species Crypticerya rosae (Riley and Howard, 1890) – rose Icerya 
                                              Species Crypticerya similis (H. Morrison, 1927)  
                                              Species Crypticerya subandina (Leonardi, 1911)  
                                              Species Crypticerya tabernicola (Ferris, 1921)  
                                              Species Crypticerya thibaudi Foldi, 2010  
                                              Species Crypticerya townsendi (Cockerell, 1896) – Townsend margarodid 
                                              Species Crypticerya tuberculata (H. Morrison, 1941)  
                                              Species Crypticerya zeteki (Cockerell, 1914) – Zetek's fluted scale, Cochinilla acanalada de Zetek 
       

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  Source: ScaleNet, 2/2025, Database (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  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   
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