Putoidae Explained

Putoidae is a family of scale insects commonly known as giant mealybugs or putoids[1] The genus name Macrocerococcus has also been used but it is now considered to be a synonym of Puto.[2] The genus Puto was formerly classified as a member of the Pseudococcidae;[3] however, it so significantly differed from the rest of the Pseudococcidae that it was accorded its own family Putoidae.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Beardsley, John W.. 1969 . A new fossil scale insect (Homoptera: Coccoidea) from Canadian amber . . 76 . 3 . 270–279 . 10.1155/1969/82354. free .
  2. Web site: Family: Putoidae . . February 22, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101011004053/http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/ScaleKeys/ScaleFamilies/key/Scale%20Families/Media/Html/ScaleFamilies/Families/Putoidae/Pmexicanus.html . October 11, 2010 . dead .
  3. Web site: Puto: Names. Encyclopedia of Life. April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131228061754/http://eol.org/pages/86128/names. 28 December 2013. dead. 27 December 2013.
  4. Williams, D. J.. 2011. A study of the scale insect genera Puto Signoret (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Putoidae) and Ceroputo Šulc (Pseudococcidae) with a comparison to Phenacoccus Cockerell (Pseudococcidae). Zootaxa. 2802. 22. https://web.archive.org/web/20130225112406/http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Coccoidea/Puto_Split.pdf. 25 February 2013. live. etal. 10.11646/zootaxa.2802.1.1. 1885/63136. free.

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