Sources of Information

As a first step to providing all available systematic information on scale insects the focus has been on information that is published. In future years it may be possible to provide unpublished data especially from collections. The flow of information is through a database called BASIS (Biological and Systematic Information System) developed by Gary Gibson and Jennifer Read, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. In most instances data have been entered into BASIS from comprehensive catalogues and bibliographies. Of the information entered to date, the primary sources of data are:

Aclerdidae (McConnell 1954)
Beesoniidae (Hoy 1963)
Carayonemidae (Richard 1986)
Cerococcidae (Lambdin & Kosztarab 1977a)
Coccidae (Ben-Dov 1993)
Conchaspididae (Ben-Dov 1981c, Ben-Dov 1981d)
Dactylopiidae (De Lotto 1974a)
Diaspididae (Borchsenius 1966)
Electrococcidae (Koteja 2000)
Eriococcidae (Hoy 1963)
Grimaldiellidae (Koteja 2000)
Halimococcidae (Borchsenius 1966, Stickney 1934)
Inkaidae (Koteja 1989b)
Jersicoccidae (Koteja 2000)
Kermesidae (Bullington & Kosztarab 1985, Baer & Kosztarab 1985)
Kerriidae (Kapur 1958)
Kukaspididae (Koteja & Poinar 2001)
Labiococcidae (Koteja 2000)
Lecanodiaspididae (Howell & Kosztarab 1972, Hodgson 1973a)
Micrococcidae (Miller & Williams 1995a)
Ortheziidae (Morrison 1925, Morrison 1952)
Phenacoleachidae (Beardsley 1964b)
Phoenicoccidae (Stickney et al. 1950)
Pseudococcidae (Ben-Dov 1994)
Stictococcidae (Richard 1971, Richard 1976)

Major bibliographic information has been compiled using:

Through a series of contracts with Michael Kosztarab, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA, bibliographic data has been entered from 1985 to 1995 into a ProCite database. This information has been transported and converted into the BASIS scale insect database.

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