''Gallacoccus'' is a
genus
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of the
scale insect
Scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha. Of dramatically variable appearance and extreme sexual dimorphism, they comprise the infraorder Coccomorpha which is considered a more convenient grouping than the ...
s commonly known as
beesoniids. They typically cause galls on their plant
hosts
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Host may also refer to:
Places
*Host, Pennsylvania, a village in Berks County
People
*Jim Host (born 1937), American businessman
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. ''Gallacoccus anthonyae'' is the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
. Female members of the genus ''Gallacoccus'' have only three
instar
An instar (, from the Latin '' īnstar'', "form", "likeness") is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each moult (''ecdysis''), until sexual maturity is reached. Arthropods must shed the exoskeleton in order to grow or ass ...
s, in contrast to the other beesoniid genera where the females have four.
Species
* ''
Gallacoccus heckrothi''
Takagi, 2001
* ''
Gallacoccus anthonyae''
Beardsley, 1971
* ''
Gallacoccus secundus''
Beardsley, 1971
* ''
Gallacoccus spinigalla''
Takagi, 2001
Notes
References
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Sternorrhyncha genera
Beesoniidae
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