Genus Beesonia Green, 1962

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• Beesonia Green, E.E. 1926. On some new genera and species of Coccidae. Bulletin of Entomological Research 17: 55-65 [55] [type genus of the family Beesoniidae by Ferris, G.F. 1950. Report upon scale insects collected in China (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Part I. (Contribution no. 66). Microentomology 15: 1–34].

  Type species:

   Beesonia dipterocarpi Green, 1926 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Ferris, G.F. 1950. Report upon scale insects collected in China (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Part I. (Contribution no. 66). Microentomology 15: 1-34.
• Trichococcus Kanda, S. 1941. The genus Xylococcus and the genns [sic] Trichococcns [sic] N.G. from Japan (Homopteta) [sic]. Insect World 44: 68-72.

  Type species:

   Xylococcus napiformis Kuwana, 1914 by monotypy.
• Trichococcus Borchsenius, N.S. 1948. On the revision of the genus Eriococcus Sign. (Insecta, Homoptera, Coccoidea). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR ns 60: 501-503 [503] [listed a n.g. in Nomenclator Zoologicus].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Takagi, S. 1987. Notes on the Beesoniidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Insecta Matsumurana 37: 27-41 [28] (synonymy of Trichococcus Kanda, 1941)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Beardsley, J.W. 1984. Gall-forming Coccoidea. In, Ananthakrishnan, T.N. (ed.). Biology of Gall Insects. New Delhi : Oxford & IBH. Publ. Co. 400 pp. [93] (taxonomy, ecology)

Ferris, G.F. 1950. Report upon scale insects collected in China (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Part I. (Contribution no. 66). Microentomology 15: 1-34 [5-6] (taxonomy, description)

Green, E.E. 1926. On some new genera and species of Coccidae. Bulletin of Entomological Research 17: 55-65 [55-59] (taxonomy, description)

Hu, X., Li, S. & Prokopy, R.J. 1995. Studies on the morphology and taxonomy of the male of Beesonia napiformis (Kuwana) (Coccoidea: Beesoniidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 29: 85-91 [85-91] (taxonomy)

Hu, X. & Li, S. 1986. A new species of the genus Beesonia Green (Coccoidea, Beesoniidae) from Shandong, China. Journal of Shandong Agricultural University 17(4): 75-80 [75-80] (taxonomy)

Kawai, S. 1980. Scale insects of Japan in colors. Tokyo : National Agricultural Education Association 455 pp. [181] (taxonomy, description)

Kozár, F. & Drozdják, J. 1998. Beesonidae [Beesoniidae?]. In, Kozár, F. (ed.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coccoidea. Budapest, Hungary : Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 526 pp. [34] (catalogue)

Paik, W.H. (ed.) 1978. Illustrated flora and fauna of Korea. Insecta (VI). [Korea] : Min. Education (Samhwa Publ. Co. Ltd) Vol. 22 481 pp. [280] (taxonomy, description)

Takagi, S. 1987. Notes on the Beesoniidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Insecta Matsumurana 37: 27-41 [27-41] (taxonomy, description)

Takagi, S. 1992. Mangalorea hopeae, a new Beesoniid (Homoptera: Coccoidea) inducing galls on Hopea ponga in southern India. Part II. Insecta Matsumurana ns 47: 10-32 [10-32] (taxonomy, description)

Takagi, S. 1995. A new species of Beesonia with larval polymorphism, inducing a stem gall on Shorea curtisii in Singapore [Homoptera: Coccoidea: Beesoniidae]. Insecta Matsumurana 52: 1-19 [1-19] (taxonomy, description)

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