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Species Toumeyella parvicornis - Pine Tortoise Scale

Toumeyella parvicornis - female Toumeyella parvicornis - female Toumeyella parvicornis Toumeyella parvicornis - male Toumeyella parvicornis - male Toumeyella parvicornis - male Toumeyella parvicornis - male - female
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 Coccidae (Soft Scale Insects)
Genus Toumeyella
Species parvicornis (Pine Tortoise Scale)
Explanation of Names
Author: Cockerell, 1897
Identification
Shoot or twig form: female convex and hemispherical, reddish-brown with black or dark markings.
Needle form: female elongate, greenish.
Food
Various species of pines.
Contributed by Claude Pilon on 1 February, 2018 - 9:54am

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