NOMEN: Gallinsecta De Geer 1776 [C. De Geer. Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes. T.6. Stockholm, De l'Impr. de L.L. Grefing, 1776]
ORIGINAL SPELLING (De Geer 1776): Gallinsectes (in French, plural; singular – "gallinsecte")
SUBSEQUENT SPELLING:
Gallinsecta: Latreille 1802 (with circumscription changed)
Gallinsecta: Latreille 1807 (with circumscription corresponding to the original one)
ORIGINAL LISTED
MEMBERSHIP (De Geer 1776):
Coccus 
JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Diptera Proboscidea Retzius 1783 (non Proboscidea Scopoli 1763)
= Gallinsectia Rafinesque 1815
= Phauloptera Laporte 1834
= Monomera Westwood
1840
= Pseudoptera Amyot
1845
= Microhomoptera Crampton 1916
= Coccoptera Krausse & Wolff
1919
= Parametabola Weber 1933 (as metamorphosis type in males) (non Crampton
1938)
TYPIFIED
NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Coccus/fg (incl. Orthezia)
TYPIFIED
NAMES IN USE: Coccida, Coccidae, Coccides,
Coccidoides, Coccidomorpha, Coccina, Coccinea,
Coccites, Coccoidea, Coccomorpha
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic
taxon.
Systematic position of Gallinsecta:
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Arthroidignatha (Cimex/f=Cicada/g) Plantisuga = Phytadelga (Aphis/fg) Aphidococca (Aphis/fg) Gynaptera (Aphis/fg) Gallinsecta (Coccus/fg) Psyllaleyroda (Psylla/fg) Saltipedes (Psylla/fg) Scytinelytra (Aleyrodes/fg) Hemelytrata (Cimex/f=Cicada/g) Auchenorrhyncha (Cicada/fg) Heteropteroidea (Cimex/f=Notonecta/g) Coleorrhyncha (Peloridium/fg) Heteroptera (Cimex/f=Notonecta/g) |