Superfamily
Coccoidea (Scale insects)
Coccus viridis. Photo: (c) Miranda85, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha. They comprise the superfamily Coccoidea, previously placed in the now obsolete group called “Homoptera”. There are about 8,000 described species of scale insects.
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