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Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist


Scale Insects

The Superfamily Coccoidea includes small insects that measure between 0.5-8 mm in length and have bodies that can be covered with secretions that form a covering that appears to be a scale.

In Galapagos 38 different scale insects have been reported, 9 endemic, 2 native, and 26 introduced, in 7 different families.
The species currently considered endemic or most likely endemic are: Orthezia galapagoensis, Margarodes similis, Pseudococcus galapagoensis, P. insularis, Rhizoecus insularis, Eriococcus papillosus, Chortinaspis sp., Odonaspis galapagoensis, and Velanaspis sp.

Authors: Maria Piedad Lincango, Christopher Hodgson, Douglass Miller, Charlotte Causton.

Other Contributors: Sandra Abedrabbo, Fabián Bersosa, Ruth Boada, Carolina Calderon, Germania Estévez, Lilian Guzmán, Henri W. Herrera, María T. Lasso, E. G. Linsley, Alejandro Mieles, Renato Oquendo, Helmut W. Rogg, Lázaro Roque-Álbelo, Leslie Usinger, Michael R. Wilson.

Names of taxa included: 85 total (73 accepted, 11 unidentified taxon, 1 doubtful).

Origin of the taxa included: 52 accidental, 4 questionable native, 5 endemic, 1 indigenous, 6 questionable endemic.

Coccoidea Species Checklist

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Domain Eukaryota

Kingdom Animalia

Division Arthropoda

Class Insecta

Order Hemiptera

Suborder Sternorrhyncha

Superfamily Coccoidea

Family Asterolecaniidae

Family Coccidae

Family Diaspididae

Family Eriococcidae

Family Margarodidae

Family Ortheziidae

Family Pseudococcidae

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This list should be cited as follows:

Lincango, M. P., Hodgson, C., Miller, D., Causton, C. (2011). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Scale Insects - FCD Lista de especies de Insectos escamas de Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/terrestrial-invertebrates/coccoidea/ Last updated 13 Apr 2011.