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Helenococcus Liu & Howell, 1997 (Diaspididae)

Helenococcus Liu & Howell 1997: 72. Type species: Helenococcus hokeae Liu & Howell by monotypy and original designation . accepted valid name

Systematics: Diagnostic characters of Helenococcus include body pyriform, with free abdominal segments slightly lobed laterally, pygidium somewhat triangular, pygidial margin pointed at apex, median lobes well developed, ducts slender, arranged as submarginal rows along the posterior intersegmental line of each abdominal segments I-VII of dorsal surface, with a cluster of these ducts between median lobes, a number of such ducts may be irregularly scattered on marginal and submarginal areas of thorax and abdominal segments I-VII of both surfaces (Liu & Howell, 1997).