Genus Balanococcus Williams, 1962
- Balanococcus Williams, D.J. 1962. The British Pseudococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 12: 1-79 [13].
ID Keys
(Danzig, E.M., 1998) [154] (female; Russia); (Tang, F.T., 1992) [128] (female; species of Palaearctic & Oriental Regions); (Danzig, E.M., 1988) [697] (female; Far East of Russia); (Danzig, E.M., 1988) [705] (female; species of far east of Russia); (Koteja, J., 1988) [121-123] (female; world); (Cox, J.M., 1987) [20-21] (female; species New Zealand); (Cox, J.M., 1987) [14] (female; New Zealand); (Danzig, E.M. [Dantsig], 1980) [186] (female; Far East Russia); (Williams, D.J., 1962) [15] (female; United Kingdom)
GENERAL
Good definition and characters given by Williams, D.J. 1962. The British Pseudococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 12: 1–79, Danzig, E.M. [Dantsig] 1980. Coccoids of the Far East USSR (Homoptera, Coccinea) with an analysis of the phylogeny of coccids of the world fauna. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 124: 1–343, Cox, J.M. 1987. Pseudococcidae (Insecta: Hemiptera). In, Duval, C.T. (ed). Fauna of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand : DSIR Science Information Publishing Centre Vol. 11 229 pp., Koteja, J. 1988. Review of Kiritshenkella Borchsenius and Balanococcus Williams, with a description of a new species (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae). Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Zoologii. Annales Zoologici 42(3): 119–140, Kosztarab, M. & Kozár, F. 1988. Scale Insects of Central Europe. Budapest : Akadémiai Kiado 456 pp.,Tang, F.T. 1992. [The Pseudococcidae of China]. Taigu, Shanxi, China : Shanxi Agricultural University 768 pp. and by Danzig, E.M. 1998. Kiritshenkella and related genera of mealybugs from Russia and neighbouring countries (Homoptera: Coccinea: Pseudococcidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 7: 153–161.
SYSTEMATICS
This genus comes close to Kiritshenkella.
General References
Ben-Dov, Y. 1994. A Systematic Catalogue of the Mealybugs of the World (Insecta: Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae and Putoidae) with Data on Geographical Distribution, Host Plants, Biology and Economic Importance. Andover, UK : Intercept Limited 686 pp. [55] (catalogue)
Cox, J.M. 1987. Pseudococcidae (Insecta: Hemiptera). In, Duval, C.T. (ed.). Fauna of New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand : DSIR Science Information Publishing Centre Vol. 11 229 pp. [19-21] (taxonomy, description)
Danzig, E.M. 1998. Kiritshenkella and related genera of mealybugs from Russia and neighbouring countries (Homoptera: Coccinea: Pseudococcidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 7: 153-161 [154] (taxonomy, description)
Danzig, E.M. [Dantsig] 1980. Coccoids of the Far East USSR (Homoptera, Coccinea) with an analysis of the phylogeny of coccids of the world fauna. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 124: 1-343 [110, 186] (taxonomy, description)
Kosztarab, M. & Kozár, F. 1988. Scale Insects of Central Europe. Budapest : Akadémiai Kiado 456 pp. [75] (taxonomy, description)
Koteja, J. 1988. Review of Kiritshenkella Borchsenius and Balanococcus Williams, with a description of a new species (Homoptera, Pseudococcidae). Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Zoologii. Annales Zoologici 42(3): 119-140 [119-121] (taxonomy, description)
Morrison, H. & Morrison, E.R. 1966. An annotated list of generic names of the scale insects (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Miscellaneous Publication United States Department of Agriculture 1015: 1-206 [22] (taxonomy, catalogue)
Tang, F.T. 1992. [The Pseudococcidae of China]. Taigu, Shanxi, China : Shanxi Agricultural University 768 pp. [127-128] (taxonomy, description)
Williams, D.J. 1962. The British Pseudococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 12: 1-79 [7, 13-15] (taxonomy, description)