''Morganella'' is a genus of
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 in the family
Diaspididae
Diaspididae is the largest family of scale insects with over 2650 described species in around 400 genera. As with all scale insects, the female produces a waxy protective scale beneath which it feeds on its host plant. Diaspidid scales are far mo ...
. ''
Morganella longispina'' 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 ...
.
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 Marchal is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* André Marchal (1894–1980), French organist and teacher
* Arlette Marchal (1902–1984), French film actress
*Élie Marchal (1839–1923), Belgian botanist and mycologist
* H ...
, 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''.
[(Takagi, 2007)]
Notes
References
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External links
Aspidiotina
Sternorrhyncha genera
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