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{{Short description|Family of true bugs}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Coccidae
| image = Coccus_viridis.jpg
| image_caption = Green scale, ''Coccus viridis''.
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See text
}}

[[File:Ceroplastes cirripediformis.jpg|thumb|Wax scale, ''[[Ceroplastes cirripediformis]]'']]
'''Coccidae''', from [[Ancient Greek]] {{lang|grc|κόκκος}} (''kókkos''), meaning "kernel" or "[[Kermes (insect)|Kermes]]",<ref>{{Cite book |last=Beekes |first=Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/etymological-dictionary-of-greek_202306/page/n389/mode/2up |title=Etymological Dictionary Of Greek |last2=van Beek |first2=Lucien |date= |publisher=Brill |year=2010 |isbn=978 90 04 17418 4 |editor-last=Lubotsky |editor-first=Alexander |location=Leiden, Netherlands |pages=733}}</ref><ref>{{LSJ|ko/kkos|κόκκος|ref}}</ref> are a family of [[scale insect]]s belonging to the superfamily [[Scale insect|Coccoidea]]. They are commonly known as '''soft scales''', '''wax scales''' or '''tortoise scales'''. The females are flat with elongated oval bodies and a smooth [[Integumentary system|integument]] which may be covered with [[wax]]. In some genera they possess legs but in others, they do not, and the [[Antenna (biology)|antennae]] may be shortened or missing. The males may be [[alate|winged]] or [[Aptery|wingless]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KHt-daXqZ-sC&pg=PA437 General and Applied Entomology: Hemiptera]</ref>

==Genera==
There are >1,100 spp. in 171 genera worldwide.
*'''Subfamily [[Myzolecaniinae]]'''
** ''[[Akermes]]''
** ''[[Alecanium]]''
** ''[[Alecanopsis]]''
** ''[[Cribolecanium]]''
** ''[[Cryptostigma]]''
** ''[[Cyclolecanium]]''
** ''[[Halococcus(insect)|Halococcus]]''
** ''[[Houardia]]''
** ''[[Megasaissetia]]''
** ''[[Myzolecanium]]''
** ''[[Neolecanium]]''
** ''[[Paractenochiton]]''
** ''[[Pseudophilippia]]''
** ''[[Richardiella]]''
** ''[[Torarchus]]''
** ''[[Toumeyella]]''
** ''[[Xenolecanium]]''<ref>{{cite journal|last=KONDO|first=TAKUMASA|author2=Prof. WILLIAMS M.L.|title=The Myzolecaniinae (Hemiptera: Coccidae): Old World vs. New World|journal=Bollettino di Zoologia Agraria e di Bachicoltura|year=2001|volume=33|issue=3|pages=125–128|url=http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/gullanandcranstonlab/pdfs/myzolecaniinae.pdf|access-date=2011-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927020240/http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/gullanandcranstonlab/pdfs/myzolecaniinae.pdf|archive-date=2011-09-27|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Antecerococcus]]''
* ''[[Ceroplastes]]''
* ''[[Coccus (insect)|Coccus]]'' Linnaeus, 1758
* ''[[Eucalymnatus]]'' Cockerell, 1901
* ''[[Eulecanium]]''
* ''[[Kilifia]]'' De Lotto, 1965
* ''[[Lecanium]]''
*''[[Luzulaspis]]'' Targioni Tozzetti, 1868
* ''[[Metaceronema]]''
* ''[[Milviscutulus]]''
* ''[[Paralecanium]]'' Cockerell in Cockerell & Parrott 1899
* ''[[Parasaissetia]]'' Takahashi 1955
* ''[[Parthenolecanium]]'' Šulc 1908
<!-- * ''[[Phenacoccus]]'' Cockerell, 1902 --><!-- Pseudococcidae ? -->
* ''[[Physokermes]]'' Targioni Tozzetti 1868
* ''[[Protopulvinaria]]'' Cockerell 1894
* ''[[Pulvinaria (insect)|Pulvinaria]]'' Targioni-tozzetti, 1867
* ''[[Saissetia]]'' Deplanche, 1858

==See also==
* ''[[Coccus viridis]]''
* ''[[Eulecanium cerasorum]]''
* ''[[Maacoccus arundinariae]]''
* ''[[Pulvinaria innumerabilis]]''

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://bugguide.net/node/view/5940 Images at BugGuide]
*[http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/scales/florida_wax_scale.htm Florida wax scale] on the [[University of Florida|UF]] / [[Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences|IFAS]] Featured Creatures Web site
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