Family Kermesidae Signoret 1875 (true bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Kermesidae

Alternative spelling: Kermesites

Full reference: V. Signoret. 1875. Essai sur les cochenilles ou gallinsectes (Homoptères - Coccides), 14e partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Cinquième Série 5:15-40

Parent taxon: Neococcoidea according to J. Szwedo 2018

See also Koteja 1988 and Vea and Grimaldi 2015

Sister taxa: Albicoccidae, Coccidae, Diaspididae, Eriococcidae, Hodgsonicoccidae, Inkaidae, Pseudococcidae, Rhizoecidae

Subtaxa: Sucinikermes

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection) (Eocene of Poland)

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