Family Coccidae - Soft Scale Insects

Classification · Identification · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

cochineal scale on cactus pad - Dactylopius

Kuno scale - Eulecanium kunoense - female

Soft Scale on Vaccinium ovatum - Coccus hesperidum - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)

Superfamily Coccoidea (Scales and Mealybugs)

Family Coccidae (Soft Scale Insects)

Identification

Soft scales, wax scales and tortoise scales.

Flattened elongate oval with a hard smooth exoskeleton, or covered with wax. Legs can be present or absent. Antennae can be much reduced or absent. Males can be winged or wingless.

Remarks

A number of damaging species.

Print References

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Works Cited

1.	Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects By Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 18 August, 2004 - 8:25pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 9 December, 2007 - 11:01am

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