Named By: | D. J. Williams in 2001 |
Time Period: | Burdigalian |
Location: | Dominican Republic - La Toca Formation |
Size: | 0.7 millimetres long for E. abductus, 0.76 millimetres long for E. inclusus, 0.8 millimetres long for E. reginae |
Diet: | Herbivore/sap drinker |
Fossil(s): | Few individuals preserved in amber |
Classification: | | Arthropoda | Insecta | Hemiptera | Pseudococcidae | Rhizoecinae | |
Electromyrmococcus is an extinct genus of mealybug in the Pseudococcidae subfamily Rhizoecinae. The genus currently contains three species, all from the early Miocene, Burdigalian stage, Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.