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Pedicellicoccus Vea & Grimaldi, 2015 (incertae_sedis)

Pedicellicoccus Vea & Grimaldi 2015: 46. Type species: Pedicellicoccus marginatus Vea & Grimaldi . accepted valid name

Systematics: Pedicellicoccus differs from Electrococcidae and Pityococcidae by the combinationof the following characters: body minute, head round and large relatively to body size (vs. relatively small), ocular sclerites each with apparently five or six pairs of simple eyes, arranged horizontally (vs. in a diagonally in Pityococidae), ventral eyes larger than lateral eyes (vs. of same size), not meeting medially (vs. not meeting medially in Pityococcus and Turonicoccus); antenna 9-segmented with an exceptionally enlarged pedicel (vs. not enlarged in Pityococcidae), heavily reticulated and with many short spinose setae; flagellar segments irregular in shape (vs. round), apical segment narrower; prescutum round, scutellum suboval; mesopostnotum almost as long as scutellum; basisternum with a median ridge; forewings with a narrow base and distally flat; hamulohalteres each with two hamuli; legs small; abdomen parallel sided, tapering from segment VI; penial sheath of Pityococcustype (triangular, apically tapered and bifurcated); eversible endophallus present. (Vea & Grimaldi, 2015)
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustrations in Vea & Grimaldi, 2015.

VeaGr2015: description, diagnosis, distribution, illustration, taxonomy, pp. 46-47
WilliaDe2020: taxonomy, pp. 199