title: Scale insect genus-group names and their families (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea).
abstract: Genus names of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) are listed with their current families. The list includes all generic names that are currently valid with synonyms, unjustified emendations, homonyms, nomia nuda and misspellings. The list has been compiled from many sources as discussed in the introduction. This is the first list to be prepared in recent years of all generic names and it is in alphabetical order.
authors.affiliation: The Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences (Entomology), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.; Email: djwilliamstriloc@aol.com.
authors.forename: Douglas J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.affiliation: Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Department of Plant Industry, Gainesville Florida and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, Building 005, Barc-West, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705, U.S.A.; Email: Barbara.Denno@sel.usda.gov.
authors.forename: Barbara D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Denno
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D057189:Checklist; D006430:Hemiptera; D009626:Terminology as Topic