''Crypticerya'' is a genus of

scale insect Scale insects are small insects of the Order (biology), order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha. Of dramatically variable appearance and extreme sexual dimorphism, they comprise the infraorder Coccomorpha which is considered a more convenient g ...

s belonging to the family

Monophlebidae Monophlebidae is a family of scale insects commonly known as the giant scales or monophlebids. They occur in most parts of the world but more genera are found in the tropics than elsewhere. , there are 28 described species.

History

The name was established by Cockerell in 1895 as a

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of '' Icerya''. It was elevated to a genus in 1899, synonymized in 1926, and revived as a genus in 2008.

List of species

* '' Crypticerya abrahami'' (Newstead, 1917) * '' Crypticerya aegyptiensis'' (Foldi, 2010) * '' Crypticerya brasiliensis'' (Hempel, 1900) * '' Crypticerya bursera'' (Unruh, 2008) * '' Crypticerya colimensis'' (Cockerell, 1902) * '' Crypticerya flava'' (Hempel, 1920) * '' Crypticerya flocculosa'' (Hempel, 1932) * '' Crypticerya genistae'' (Hempel, 1912) * '' Crypticerya littoralis'' (Cockerell, 1898) * '' Crypticerya luederwaldti'' (Hempel, 1918) * '' Crypticerya marocensis'' (Foldi, 2010) * '' Crypticerya mexicana'' (Cockerell & Parrott in Cockerell, 1899) * '' Crypticerya minima'' (Morrison, 1919) * '' Crypticerya montserratensis'' (Riley & Howard, 1890) * '' Crypticerya morrilli'' (Cockerell, 1914) * '' Crypticerya multicicatrices'' (Kondo & Unruh, 2009) * '' Crypticerya ovivivipara'' (Gavrilov-Zimin, 2018) * '' Crypticerya palmeri'' (Riley & Howard, 1890) * '' Crypticerya pimentae'' (Newstead, 1917) * '' Crypticerya rileyi'' (Cockerell, 1895) * '' Crypticerya rosae'' (Riley & Howard, 1890) * '' Crypticerya similis'' (Morrison, 1927) * '' Crypticerya subandina'' (Leonardi, 1911) * '' Crypticerya tabernicola'' (Ferris, 1921) * '' Crypticerya thibaudi'' (Foldi, 2010) * '' Crypticerya townsendi'' (Cockerell, 1896) * '' Crypticerya tuberculata'' (Morrison, 1941) * '' Crypticerya zeteki'' (Cockerell, 1914)

References

Monophlebidae Sternorrhyncha genera {{Sternorrhyncha-stub