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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Scales and Mealybugs (Coccoidea) » Ensign Coccids (Ortheziidae) » Arctorthezia
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White Louse - Arctorthezia
Copyright © 2008 Susan Wise-Eagle

White Louse - Arctorthezia
Wrangell, Alaska, Alaska, USA
May 11, 2008
Size: 3 mm
Found this today in one of my spider pitfall traps on a grassy slope. I've never seen anything like it. It looks like some kind of louse.

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Contributed by Susan Wise-Eagle on 12 May, 2008 - 1:05am
Last updated 4 December, 2010 - 5:54pm

Moved
Moved from Orthezia.
… Charley Eiseman, 4 December, 2010 - 5:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ensign Coccids.
… v belov, 19 May, 2010 - 1:00pm login or register to post comments

ID to genus
Looks like an Orthezia
… thecochenille, 13 May, 2010 - 3:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Erratum
Sorry for misidentification, it is definitely Arctorthezia sp.

The two records in Alaska are A. cataphracta and A. occidentalis
… thecochenille, 15 September, 2010 - 4:26pm login or register to post comments

Something like it
Check out the Ensign Coccids, Family Ortheziidae. I'm not qualified to confirm such an ID, but it certainly looks like one.
… Chuck Entz, 12 May, 2008 - 7:46am login or register to post comments

 
It is
an Ortheziid.
… Donald S. Chandler, 12 May, 2008 - 6:51pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the quick id, at l
Thanks for the quick id, at least to family. I saw the sucking mouth parts but didn't think of Hemiptera--I didn't know any looked like this.
… Susan Wise-Eagle, 12 May, 2008 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

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