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).
Species
Morganella acaciae Munting, 1967
Morganella barbatissima Takagi, 2007
Morganella conspicua Brain, 1919
Morganella cueroensis Cockerell, 1899
Morganella longispina Morgan, 1889
Morganella polyctena Takagi, 2003
Morganella pseudospinigera Balachowsky, 1956
Morganella spinigera Lindinger, 1909
Other species formerly Morganella
Morganella vuilleti or Morganella vuilletti now Sudanaspis vuilleti Marchal, 1909
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.
