Global InformationGallacoccus information
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Order: | Hemiptera
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| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha
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| Superfamily: | Coccoidea
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| Family: | Beesoniidae
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| Genus: | Gallacoccus Beardsley, 1971
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Gallacoccus is a genus of the scale insects commonly known as beesoniids. They typically cause galls on their plant hosts. Gallacoccus anthonyae is the type species. Female members of the genus Gallacoccus have only three instars, in contrast to the other beesoniid genera where the females have four.[1]
- ^ "Family: Beesoniidae". United States Department of Agriculture. 2008. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013.