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Bombacoccus Kondo, 2010 (Coccidae)

Bombacoccus Kondo 2010a: 40. Type species: Bombacoccus aguacatae Kondo by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: (Bombacoccus is closest to Akermes Cockerell but the two genera can be separated by the following combination of features (morphological features of Akermes in parentheses): (i) dorsum with a dense pattern of microducts (dorsum without a dense pattern of rnicroducts), (ii) young insects in life covered by a white cottony or powdery wax (young insects in life not covered by a white cottony or powdery wax); and (iii) perivulvar pores mostly quinquelocular, with one central loculus (perivulvar pores variable, with 7 or 8 loculi, with 2 or 3 central loculi). Character states of Akermes taken from Granara de Willink (1999).
General Remarks: Description and definition by Kondo (2010a).

Kondo2013: pp.40-41 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to genera of the Toumeyella-group based on adult females]
Kondo2011: pp.3-4 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to genera of New World Myzolecaniinae based on adult females]
Kondo2010a: pp.39-40 ( Adult (F) ) [Genera of New World Myzolecaniinae]