title: Gallacoccus
text: # Gallacoccus
  
  Gallacoccus is a genus of the scale insects commonly known as beesoniids. They typically cause galls on their plant hosts. Gallacoccus anthonyae is the type species. Female members of the genus Gallacoccus have only three instars, in contrast to the other beesoniid genera where the females have four.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Gallacoccus heckrothi Takagi, 2001
  * Gallacoccus anthonyae Beardsley, 1971
  * Gallacoccus secundus Beardsley, 1971
  * Gallacoccus spinigalla Takagi, 2001
  