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palm scale
Eucalymnatus tessellatus (Signoret, 1873)
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Eucalymnatus tessellatus (Signoret, 1873)
- Name authority
- (Signoret, 1873)
- Common name
- palm scale
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Coccidae
- Genus
- Eucalymnatus
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumHexapoda
- classInsecta
- orderHemiptera Linnaeus, 1758
- suborderSternorrhyncha Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843
- infraorderCoccomorpha
- familyCoccidae
- genusEucalymnatus Cockerell, 1901
- speciesEucalymnatus tessellatus (Signoret, 1873)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Eucalymnatus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Eucalymnatus brunfelsia (Hempel, 1900) | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eucalymnatus brunfelsiae Cockerell, 1902 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eucalymnatus delicatus Hempel, 1937 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eucalymnatus itanhaensis Mendes, 1931 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eucalymnatus magarinosi Costa Lima, 1923 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eucalymnatus spinosus Costa Lima, 1923 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
Documented distribution
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Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Signoret, V. (1873) Essai sur les cochenilles ou gallinsectes (Homoptères - Coccides), 11e partie. [Essay on the gall forming insects (Homoptera - Coccidae) - 11th Part.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (serie 5), 3.Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:3BPJH. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.