Xenococcus Silvestri 1924

Xenococcus Silvestri, 1924. Rhizoecidae (neococcoids). Xenococcidae Tang. Danzig & Gavrilov-Zimin (2014: 64), Gavrilov-Zimin (2018: 208). New family rank. This group is recognised by many workers as a subfamily in the Rhizoecidae, a neococcoid family, but the present authors suggest that it is a separate group with affinities to the archaecoccoids.
Published as part of Williams, D. J., 2020, Recent family-group names (2013 - 2019) in the scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccomorpha), pp. 143-145 in Zootaxa 4768 (1) on page 144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4768.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3779633
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