Full reference: I. M. Vea and D. A. Grimaldi. 2015. Diverse new scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) in amber from the Cretaceous and Eocene with a phylogenetic framework for fossil Coccoidea. American Museum Novitates 3823:1-80
Parent taxon: Coccoidea according to I. M. Vea and D. A. Grimaldi 2015
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, Pityococcidae, Putoidae, Hammanococcidae, Jankotejacoccidae
Subtaxa: Xiphos vani
Type: Xiphos vani
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)
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