Riley's Giant Scale Insect

Crypticerya rileyi

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Margarodidae

Crypticerya is a genus of scale insects belonging to the family Monophlebidae. When the genus was revived in 2008, it included 22 species, all found in the Americas. As of 2024, there are 28 described species.

Distribution

Riley's Giant Scale Insect — (c) Blake Bringhurst, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Blake Bringhurst · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 45Mexico · 9

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Blake Bringhurst, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Blake Bringhurst · CC-BY DescriptionCrypticerya, Wikipedia contributors

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