Family Pityococcidae McKenzie 1942 (scale insect)
Insecta - Hemiptera - Pityococcidae
Parent taxon: Coccoidea according to I. M. Vea and D. A. Grimaldi 2015
See also Szwedo 2018
Sister taxa: Adocimycolidae, Alacrena, Apticoccidae, Arnoldidae, Burmacoccidae, Coelostomidiidae, Electrococcidae, Grimaldiellidae, Grohnidae, Jersicoccidae, Kozariidae, Kukaspididae, Kuwaniidae, Labiococcidae, Lebanococcidae, Lithuanicoccidae, Macrodrilidae, Magnilens, Margarodidae, Matsucoccidae, Monophlebidae, Ortheziidae, Pedicellicoccus, Pennygullaniidae, Putoidae, Xiphos, Hammanococcidae
Subtaxa: Pityococcus
Type: Pityococcus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (AMNH collection) (Eocene of Russian Federation)