Pulvinaria (insect)

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| name = Pulvinaria

| image = 2023 05 20 Pulvinaria vitis.jpg

| image_caption = P. vitis

| image2 = Pulvinaria innumerabilis damage.jpg

| image2_caption = Damage to maple by P. innumerabilis

| taxon = Pulvinaria

| authority = Targioni Tozzetti, 1866

| synonyms = Chloropulvinaria Borchsenius, 1952

| synonyms_ref = {{Cite book|author=Dov, Yair Ben|year=1993|title=A Systematic Catalogue of the Soft Scale Insects of the World (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae): With Data on Geographical Distribution, Host Plants, Biology, and Economics Importance|series= Flora & Fauna Handbook, number 9|location=Gainesville, Florida|publisher=Sandhill Crane Press|page=63|isbn=978-1-877743-13-9}}

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Pulvinaria is a scale insect genus in the family Coccidae.{{Cite book|author1=Granara de Willink |author2=María Cristina |year=1999|title=Las cochinillas blandas de la República Argentina (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae) (The soft scales of the Republic of Argentina)|series=(International Contributions on Entomology, v. 3, no. 1)|language=es|location=Gainesville, Florida|publisher=Associated Publishers|pages=143–155}} The type species is Pulvinaria vitis (as Coccus vitis {{Au|Linnaeus}}).{{Cite book|author=Данциг, Евлина Марковна (Danzig, Evlina Markovna)|year=1980|title=Кокциды Дальнего Востока СССР (Homoptera, Coccinea) С анализом филогении кокцид мировой фауны (Scale insects of the Far-Eastern USSR with phylogenetic analysis of scale insects of the world fauna)|language=ru|series=(Определители по фауне СССР, 124)|location=Leningrad|publisher=Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences|isbn=978-5-458-52002-7|url=http://bookfi.org/dl/608384/aaca9e|format=djvu}} {{Cite book|author=Danzig, Evlina Markovna|year=1986|title=Coccids of the Far-Eastern USSR (Homoptera, Coccinea). Phylogenetic analysis of coccids in the world fauna|location=New Delhi|publisher=Amerind Publishing Company|oclc=16157839}}