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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) » Cryptococcus » Beech Scale (Cryptococcus fagisuga)

Species Cryptococcus fagisuga - Beech Scale

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Cryptococcus fagisuga Cryptococcus fagisuga Cryptococcus fagisuga Cryptococcus fagisuga with orange fungus? - Cryptococcus fagisuga Beech Bark Scale - Cryptococcus fagisuga - Cryptococcus fagisuga Beech Bark Scale - Cryptococcus fagisuga - Cryptococcus fagisuga Beech scale - Cryptococcus fagisuga Cryptococcus fagisuga
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 Cryptococcus
Species fagisuga (Beech Scale)
Other Common Names
Woolly Beech Scale, Beech Bark Disease Scale
Explanation of Names
Cryptococcus fagisuga Lindinger 1936
Range
native to se. Europe to n. Iran, adventive in NA: se. Canada (NS-ON)(1) & adjacent US to NJ-WV-WI), continues to spread
Food
hosts: beech (Fagus)
Life Cycle
parthenogenetic species
Remarks
earliest record in our area: NS 1890s
associated with the fungus Nectria which causes cankers and seriously damages trees
Internet References
Fact sheet on Beech bark disease (anon. 2009)
Species profile (Hale et al. 2008)
Wikipedia
Works Cited
1.Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska
Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 28 December, 2012 - 6:14pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 24 May, 2013 - 10:19am

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