Morganella is a genus of scale insects in the family Diaspididae. Morganella longispina is the type species.
It is named for Albert C. F. Morgan, the entomologist who first described the type species in 1889 (as Aspidiotus longispina).
Species Morganella acaciae Munting, 1967 Morganella barbatissima Takagi, 2007 Morganella conspicua Brain, 1919 Morganella cueroensis Cockerell, 1899 Morganella longispina Morgan, 1889 Morganella polyctena Takagi, 2003 Morganella pseudospinigera Balachowsky, 1956 Morganella spinigera Lindinger, 1909
Other species formerly Morganella Morganella vuilleti or Morganella vuilletti now Sudanaspis vuilleti Marchal, 1909Moved by
Takagi has suggested that the other African species, M. acaciae, M. conspicua, M. pseudospinigera and M. spinigera, as well as the anomalous Morganella cueroensis, do not belong in Morganella.(Takagi, 2007)
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