Putoidae

{{Short description|Family of true bugs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

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| taxon = Putoidae

| authority = Beardsley, 1969

| subdivision_ranks = Genera and subgenera

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• Puto:
• Puto subgenus Ceroputo {{Au|Šulc, 1897}}
• Puto subgenus Puto {{Au|Signoret, 1875}}
• †Palaeotupo {{Au|Koteja & Azar, 2008}}

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Putoidae is a family of scale insects commonly known as giant mealybugs or putoids{{Cite journal |author=Beardsley, John W.|year=1969 |title=A new fossil scale insect (Homoptera: Coccoidea) from Canadian amber |journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |volume=76 |issue=3 |pages=270–279 |doi=10.1155/1969/82354|doi-access=free }} The genus name Macrocerococcus has also been used but it is now considered to be a synonym of Puto.{{cite web |url=http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalekeys/scalefamilies/key/scale%20families/media/html/scalefamilies/Families/Putoidae/Pmexicanus.html |publisher=USDA Agricultural Research Service |title=Family: Putoidae |access-date=February 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011004053/http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/ScaleKeys/ScaleFamilies/key/Scale%20Families/Media/Html/ScaleFamilies/Families/Putoidae/Pmexicanus.html |archive-date=October 11, 2010 |url-status=dead }} The genus Puto was formerly classified as a member of the Pseudococcidae;{{Cite web|title=Puto: Names|publisher=Encyclopedia of Life|date=April 2013|url=http://eol.org/pages/86128/names|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228061754/http://eol.org/pages/86128/names|archive-date=28 December 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=27 December 2013}} however, it so significantly differed from the rest of the Pseudococcidae that it was accorded its own family Putoidae.{{Citation|author=Ben-Dov, Yair|year=1994|title=A systematic catalogue of the mealybugs of the world (Insecta: Homoptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae and Putoidae) with data on geographical distribution, host plants, biology and economic importance|location=Andover, Hampshire, UK|publisher=Intercept Limited|isbn=978-1-898298-07-6}}{{Cite journal|author=Williams, D. J.|year=2011|title=A study of the scale insect genera Puto Signoret (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Putoidae) and Ceroputo Šulc (Pseudococcidae) with a comparison to Phenacoccus Cockerell (Pseudococcidae)|journal=Zootaxa|volume=2802|page=22|url=http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Coccoidea/Puto_Split.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225112406/http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Coccoidea/Puto_Split.pdf|archive-date=25 February 2013|url-status=dead|display-authors=etal|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2802.1.1|hdl=1885/63136|hdl-access=free}}