title: Pityococcidae
text: # Pityococcidae
  
  Pityococcidae is a family of scales and mealybugs in the order Hemiptera. There are at least three genera and about eight described species in Pityococcidae.
  
  ## Genera
  
  These three genera belong to the family Pityococcidae:
  
  * Desmococcus McKenzie, 1942
  * Pityococcus McKenzie, 1942
  * † Cancerococcus Koteja, 1988
  