Family BEESONIIDAE
Introduction
The described Australian fauna comprises the single species Beesonia ferrugineus (Froggatt). Miller et al. (1998) clearly assigned this species to the Beesoniidae but with no generic placement. For technical reasons the species is placed in the type genus of Beesoniidae.
References
Miller, D.R., Gullan, P.J. & Williams, D.J. 1998. Family placement of species previously included in the scale insect genus Sphaerococcus Maskell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 100: 286–305