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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Scales and Mealybugs (Coccoidea) » Gall-like Scale Insects (Kermesidae)

Family Kermesidae - Gall-like Scale Insects

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Scale on Bur Oak Gall-Like Scale Insect Allokermes galliformes? Gall-like Scale Kermesid Kermesids Leaf Galls on White Oak Leaf Galls on White Oak
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)
Superfamily Coccoidea (Scales and Mealybugs)
Family Kermesidae (Gall-like Scale Insects)
Explanation of Names
Kermesidae Signoret 1875
Numbers
33 spp. in 5 genera in our area, >90 spp. in 10 genera worldwide(1)
Food
most spp. on oaks, some on chinquapin(2)
Internet References
Taxon page(3)
Works Cited
1.ScaleNet
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
3.Miller D., Rung A., Parikh G., Venable G., Redford A.J., Evans G.A., Gill R.J. (2014) Scale Insects, 2nd ed.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 12 September, 2008 - 10:31pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 November, 2023 - 7:48pm

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