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Table 1. Comparison of the species number of Coccoidea in the Palaearctic Region and in the World In the Palaearctic Region The number of Coccoidea species according to: Family Eastop (1978) Kosztarab (1982) Number Number In the In the World In the World of the genera of the species Palaearctic Region In the World In the World 1. Ortheziidae 5 14 _ 76 81 2. Margarodidae 17 83 25 196 250 3. Pseudococcidae 105 594 547 1603 ~ 1100 4. Eriococcidae 15 126 99 378 ~ 350 5. Cryptococcidae 1 3 5 6. Micrococcidae 1 6 7. Dactylopiidae 1 4 9 9 8. Kermesidae 3 38 33 69 68 9. Cerococcidae 4 24 ~ 64 10. Coccidae 55 274 295 1162 ~ 1000 11. Lacciferidae 3 5 65 ~ 65 12. Lecanodiaspididae 5 16 4 74 71 13. Aclerdidae 2 13 13 53 ~ 50 14. Beesoniidae 1 2 2 3 15. Asterolecaniidae 12 78 47 172 ~ 200 16. Phoenicococcidae 1 1 1 1 2 17. Hallmococcidae 2 2 2 18 17 18. Conchaspididae 1 1 18 23 19. Diaspididae 157 654 445 1932 ^1500 20. Stictococcidae 15 15 21. Phenacoleachiidae 2 22. Putoidae* ~ 48 23. Apiomorphidae ~ 62 Total 391 1938 1511 5843 4985 This family is included in Pseudococcidae In our list. Colleagues are kindly requested that remarks and additions be sent to the authors in order to enable necessary modifications in future editions. Acknowledgements. The authors are extremely grateful to more than 250 colleagues who have been kind enough to put their published works at the authors' disposal. It is unfortunate that because of space limitations we cannot list their names. Special thanks are, however, due to Dr.L.A. MOUND and Dr.J.M. COX, British Museum of Natural History (London, UK), for permitting access to the collections, to the species file system, and the library which enabled to compare our list with the data of the Museum; to Dr.D.J. WILLIAMS, Commonwealth Institute of Entomology (London, UK), for his help in many a problem; to Dr.E.M. DANZIG, Zoological Institute, Acad. Sei.USSR (Leningrad, USSR), and to Dr.D. MATILEFERRERO, Museum National (Paris, France), and for the continuous help and permission of use of their collections. For sending the species list, to Dr.T. WANG (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy, China), Dr. Y.M. EZZAT (Midam Sollman Gohar, Dokki-Giza, Egypt), Dr.J. KOTE JA (Applied Zoology, College of Agriculture, Cracow, Poland), Dr. Z. DÜZGÜNES (A.Ü. Ziraat Fakültesi Bitki Koruma Kürsüsü, Ankara, Turkey), Dr.B.B. BAZAROV (Zoological Institute, Acad.
