Morganella (insect)  Morganella is a genus of scale insects in the family Diaspididae. "Morganella longispina" is the type species. It is named for Albert C. F. Morgan, the entomologist who first described the type species in 1889 (as "Aspidiotus longispina"). Takagi has suggested that the other African species, "M. acaciae", "M. conspicua", "M. pseudospinigera" and "M. spinigera", as well as the anomalous "Morganella cueroensis", do not belong in "Morganella".