†family Grimaldiellidae Koteja 2000 (scale insect)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Grimaldiellidae

Full reference: J. Koteja. 2000. Scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccinea) from Upper Cretaceous New Jersey amber. Studies on Fossils in Amber, with Particular Reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey 147-229

Parent taxon: Coccoidea according to I. M. Vea and D. A. Grimaldi 2015

See also Koteja 2000 and Szwedo 2018

Sister taxa: Adocimycolidae, Alacrena, Apticoccidae, Arnoldidae, Burmacoccidae, Coelostomidiidae, Electrococcidae, Grohnidae, Jersicoccidae, Kozariidae, Kukaspididae, Kuwaniidae, Labiococcidae, Lebanococcidae, Lithuanicoccidae, Macrodrilidae, Magnilens, Margarodidae, Matsucoccidae, Monophlebidae, Ortheziidae, Pedicellicoccus, Pennygullaniidae, Pityococcidae, Putoidae, Xiphos, Hammanococcidae

Subtaxa: Grimaldiella

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Type: Grimaldiella

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at White Oaks Pit (Old Crossman's Clay Pits) (Cretaceous of New Jersey)

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