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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) » Felt Scales (Eriococcidae) » Ovaticoccus » Felt Scale (Ovaticoccus agavium)

Species Ovaticoccus agavium - Felt Scale

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References
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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 Eriococcidae (Felt Scales)
Genus Ovaticoccus
Species agavium (Felt Scale)
Explanation of Names
Author: Douglas, 1888
Identification
Lightly dusted with white mealy wax, pink body shows through wax, with 2 longitudinal lines of brown blotches. Similar to O. californicus
Range
An invasive tropical species in the US and Europe, probably originated in Africa.
Food
Host-specific on Agave and Yucca plants
Remarks
Intercepted 13 times at U. S. ports-of-entry between 1995 and 2012, from Mexico and UK.
Internet References
Forestry Images
IDTools
Invasive species.org-more images
ScaleNet Images
ScaleNet Catalogue
Contributed by Tim Loh on 17 February, 2009 - 6:07pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 24 October, 2016 - 12:59pm

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