Morganella (insect)
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.
Species
Morganella acaciae Munting, 1967Morganella barbatissima Takagi, 2007Morganella conspicua Brain, 1919Morganella cueroensis Cockerell, 1899Morganella longispina Morgan, 1889Morganella polyctena Takagi, 2003Morganella pseudospinigera Balachowsky, 1956Morganella spinigera Lindinger, 1909Other species formerly ''Morganella''
Morganella vuilleti or Morganella vuilletti now Sudanaspis vuilleti Marchal, 1909Takagi 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.