Genus Icerya Signoret, 1875
- Icerya Signoret, V. 1875. Communication sur les cochenilles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Bulletin 5 4: cxxxix-cxl, ccxx [dated 1874] [cclviii].
Type species:
Icerya sacchari Guérin-Méneville, 1867 (= Dorthesia seychellarum Westwood, 1855) by monotypy. - Crossotoma Douglas, J.W. 1890. Notes on some British and exotic Coccidae (No. 15). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 26: 79-81 [79].
Type species:
Crossotosoma aegyptiacum Douglas, 1890 by original designation. - Icerya Cockerell, T.D.A. 1895. VIII. Some new insects. Psyche (Cambridge) 7: 15-16 [15].
Type species:
Icerya (Proticerya) rileyi Cockerell, 1895 by monotypy. Type species:
Icerya formicarum Newstead, 1897 by monotypy.- Auloicerya Morrison, H. & Morrison, E.R. 1923. The scale insects of the sub-families Monophlebinae and Margarodinae treated by Maskell. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 62: 1-47 [22].
Type species:
Palaeococcus australis Maskell, 1923 by original designation. - Pericerya Silvestri, F. 1939. Compendio di Entomologia Applicata. Parte speciale. Portici : Tipografia Bellavista 974 pp. [648].
Type species:
Icerya purchasi Maskell, 1879 by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Morrison, H. 1928. A classification of the higher groups and genera of the coccid family Margarodidae. United States Department of Agriculture. Technical Bulletin 52: 1-240 [219] (Crossotoma =Icerya; also p. 220 for Icerya (Proticerya)= Icerya)
- Rao, V.P. 1951. Iceryine scale insects recorded from the Orient. Indian Journal of Entomology 12: 39-66 [40] (Newsteadiella =Icerya)
- 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 [152] (Pericerya =Icerya)
- Unruh, C.M. & Gullan, P.J. 2008. Molecular data reveal convergent reproductive strategies in iceryine scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae), allowing the re-interpretation of morphology and a revised classification. Systematic Entomology 33: 80-50 [41]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
Australian Region
- Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Central E coast
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Western Australia
- Cook Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Kiribati
- New Caledonia
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Western Samoa
Nearctic Region
Neotropical Region
- Colombia
- French Guiana
Oriental Region
- China (People's Republic)
- Fujian (Fukien)
- Guangdong (Kwangtung)
- Hong Kong
- India
- Assam
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Tamil Nadu
- West Bengal
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Pakistan
- Ryukyu Islands (= Nansei Shoto)
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
- Thailand
Palaearctic Region
- Japan
General References
Gómez-Menor Ortega, J. 1957. Adiciones a los cóccidos de España (4a nota). Eos 33: 39-86 [86] (misspelling of genus name as Perycerya)
Gómez-Menor Ortega, J. 1968. Adiciones a los Coccidos de España VII nota (Hem. Homoptera). Eos 43: 541-563 [563] (subsequent misspelling of genus name as Perycerya)
Hadzibejli, Z.K. 1983. Coccids of the Subtropical Zone of Gruzia. Tbilisi : Metsniereba 293 pp. [55] (misspelling of genus name as Icerva, also as Preicerya on the same page, and as Ycerya on p. 266)
Hempel, A. 1912. Catalogos da fauna Brasileira editados pello Museu Paulista S. Paulo – Brasil. Sao Paulo : Diario Official 77 pp. [57] (misspelling of genus name)
Kaussari, M. 1957. La deuxième liste des cochenilles de l'Iran. Ministère de l'Agriculture, Entomologie et Phytopathologie Appliquées, Publication du Départment Général de la Protection Plantes. Tehran 16–17: 1-3 [2] (subsequent misspelling of genus name as Iceria)
Kawecki, Z. 1965. The importance of the degree of reduction in male wing apparatus for studies on the phylogenesis of scale insects (Homoptera, Coccoidea). Zoologica Poloniae, Krakow 14: 205-211 [206] (subsequent misspelling of genus name as Iceria)
Kiritchenko, A.N. 1932. Suborder Coccoidea. Scale insects. Trudy po Zashchite Rastenii, Series Entomologya 5: 63-66 (subsequent misspelling as Iceria, p. 253 cited in ScaleNet, but article only pp. 63-66)
Rao, V.P. 1943. Maskell in South India. Indian Journal of Entomology 5(1/2): 246-247 [246] (misspelling, as Acerya)
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