Tuesday, December 12, 2006
D0214

On the higher relationships of the family Coccidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea)

Takumasa Kondo, tkondo@ucdavis.edu, University of California - Davis, Department of Entomology, One Shields Avenue, Briggs Hall, Davis, CA and Lyn Cook, Australian National University, School of Botany and Zoology, ACT, 0200, Camberra, Australia.

This is the first moleculat level phylogenetic study of the family Coccidae and covers 8 out of 10 major subfamilies.


Species 1: Hemiptera Coccidae Cryptostigma
Species 2: Hemiptera Coccidae Toumeyella
Species 3: Hemiptera Coccidae Pulvinaria