The Coccidae are a family of scale insects belonging to the superfamily

Coccoidea 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 t ...

. They are commonly known as soft scales, wax scales or tortoise scales. The females are flat with elongated oval bodies and a smooth

integument In biology, an integument is the tissue surrounding an organism's body or an organ within, such as skin, a husk, shell, germ or rind. Etymology The term is derived from ''integumentum'', which is Latin for "a covering". In a transferred, or ...

which may be covered with

wax Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures. They include higher alkanes and lipids, typically with melting points above about 40 °C (104 °F), melting to giv ...

. In some genera they possess legs but in others, they do not, and the antennae may be shortened or missing. The males may be winged or

wingless The Wnt signaling pathways are a group of signal transduction pathways which begin with proteins that pass signals into a cell through cell surface receptors. The name Wnt is a portmanteau created from the names Wingless and Int-1. Wnt signaling p ...

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There are >1,100 spp. in 171 genera worldwide. *Subfamily Myzolecaniinae ** '' Akermes'' ** '' Alecanium'' ** '' Alecanopsis'' ** '' Cribolecanium'' ** '' Cryptostigma'' ** '' Cyclolecanium'' ** '' Halococcus'' ** '' Houardia'' ** '' Megasaissetia'' ** '' Myzolecanium'' ** '' Neolecanium'' ** '' Paractenochiton'' ** '' Pseudophilippia'' ** '' Richardiella'' ** '' Torarchus'' ** '' Toumeyella'' ** '' Xenolecanium'' * '' Antecerococcus'' * '' Ceroplastes'' * ''

Coccus A coccus (plural cocci) is any bacterium or archaeon that has a spherical, ovoid, or generally round shape. Bacteria are categorized based on their shapes into three classes: cocci (spherical-shaped), bacillus (rod-shaped) and spiral ( of whi ...

'' Linnaeus, 1758 * '' Eucalymnatus'' Cockerell, 1901 * '' Eulecanium'' * '' Kilifia'' De Lotto, 1965 * '' Lecanium'' *'' Luzulaspis'' Targioni Tozzetti, 1868 * '' Metaceronema'' * '' Milviscutulus'' * '' Paralecanium'' Cockerell in Cockerell & Parrott 1899 * '' Parasaissetia'' Takahashi 1955 * '' Parthenolecanium'' Šulc 1908 * '' Physokermes'' Targioni Tozzetti 1868 * '' Protopulvinaria'' Cockerell 1894 * '' Pulvinaria'' Targioni-tozzetti, 1867 * '' Saissetia'' Deplanche, 1858

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