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Crypticerya

Watson, Gillian W.

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Crypticerya

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Crypticerya is a genus of scale insects belonging to the family Monophlebidae. When the genus was revived in 2008, it included 22 species, all found in the Americas. , there are 28 described species.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderHemiptera
  5. FamilyMargarodidae

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Crypticerya
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Crypticerya is a genus of scale insects belonging to the family Monophlebidae. When the genus was revived in 2008, it included 22 species, all found in the Americas. , there are 28 described species.

==History== The name was established by Cockerell in 1895 as a subgenus of Icerya. It was elevated to a genus in 1899, synonymized in 1926, and revived as a genus in 2008.

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