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Eulecanium elegans Leonardi, 1911
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
- Eulecanium elegans Leonardi, 1911
- Name authority
- Leonardi, 1911
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Coccidae
- Genus
- Eulecanium
- 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
- genusEulecanium Cockerell, 1893
- speciesEulecanium elegans Leonardi, 1911
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Eulecanium. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Eulecanium albodermis Chen, 1962 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eulecanium alnicola Chen, 1962 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| pea tree scaleEulecanium caraganae Borchsenius, 1953 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| calico scaleEulecanium cerasorum (Cockerell, 1900) | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| ciliate oak scaleEulecanium ciliatum (Douglas, 1891) | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eulecanium circumfluum Borchsenius, 1955 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eulecanium cordoi Granara de Willink, 1999 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| currant soft scaleEulecanium douglasi (Šulc, 1895) | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eulecanium emerici (Planchon, 1864) | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eulecanium fradei Almeida, 1969 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Giant eulecaniumEulecanium giganteum Shinji, 1935 | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eulecanium hirsutum (Newstead, 1917) | CoccidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Lecanium elegans (Leonardi, 1911) (Leonardi, 1911) | synonym |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Río Negro
Mendoza
La Rioja
Catamarca
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.
- Leonardi, G. (1911) Contributo alla conoscenza delle coccinglie della Repúbblica Argentina. Bollettino del R. Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria di Portici, 5.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:3C9YH. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.