Van Dam, A.R., Portillo Martinez, L., Chavez, A.J., & May, B.P. 2015 Range Wide Phylogeography of Dactylopius coccus (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 108(3):299-310

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Notes: Ecological evidence supports Oaxaca Mexico as the geographic origin of Dactylopius coccus. We use three mtDNA genes (CO1, tRNA-Leucine, and CO2) spanning 1294 bp, along with climate niche modeling of Holocene and Pleistocene cochineal distributions