The Commission has conserved the usage of the family-group name pseudococcini Cockerell, 1905 (type genus Pseudococcus Westwood, 1840) for the mealybugs, a speciose group including many pests of agriculture, by giving it precedence over the senior family-group name sphaerococcini Cockerell, 1899 (type genus Sphaerococcus Maskell, 1892).
pseudococcini Cockerell, 1905 (Insecta, Hemiptera): precedence given over sphaerococcini Cockerell, 1899," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(4), 367-368, (1 December 2009). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v66i4.a14