Xylococcus (insect)

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Xylococcus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Margarodidae
Genus: Xylococcus
Löw, 1883
species

Xylococcus filiferus
Xylococcus japonicus
Xylococcus quercicola
and others

The scale insect genus Xylococcus is a small group in the family Margarodidae. Some of its constituent species are sometimes placed in a separate genus, Xylococculus.

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