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Coelostomidiidae
Coelostomidiidae is a family of scales and mealybugs in the order Hemiptera. There are about 5 genera and 11 described species in Coelostomidiidae. Genera These five genera belong to the family Coelostomidiidae: * ''Coelostomidia'' Cockerell 1900 * ''Crambostoma'' Gavrilov-Zimin 2018 * ''Eremostoma'' Gavrilov-Zimin 2018 * ''Ultracoelostoma'' Cockerell 1902 * † ''Cancerococcus'' Koteja, 1988 References Further reading * Scale insects Hemiptera families {{sternorrhyncha-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scale Insects
Scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha. Of dramatically variable appearance and extreme sexual dimorphism, they comprise the infraorder Coccomorpha which is considered a more convenient grouping than the superfamily Coccoidea due to taxonomic uncertainties. Adult females typically have soft bodies and no limbs, and are concealed underneath domed scales, extruding quantities of wax for protection. Some species are hermaphroditic, with a combined ovotestis instead of separate ovaries and testes. Males, in the species where they occur, have legs and sometimes wings, and resemble small flies. Scale insects are herbivores, piercing plant tissues with their mouthparts and remaining in one place, feeding on sap. The excess fluid they imbibe is secreted as honeydew on which sooty mold tends to grow. The insects often have a mutualistic relationship with ants, which feed on the honeydew and protect them from predators. There are about 8,000 descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coelostomidia
''Coelostomidia'' is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Coelostomidiidae. The species of this genus are endemic to New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ....Morales, C.F. (1991)Margarodidae (Insecta: Hemiptera), ''Fauna of New Zealand'' no. 21, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research. Species: References Sternorrhyncha genera Scale insects {{Sternorrhyncha-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coelostomidia Zealandica
''Coelostomidia zealandica'' (common name: great giant scale) is a scale insect endemic to New Zealand. The female is notably larger and very different in appearance from the small winged male. Taxonomy This species was described in 1880 by William Maskell as ''Coelostoma zealandica'' from specimens collected in Otago on the bark of trees, and Canterbury "buried in the ground and in the chinks of rocks, by the Sumner Road, Lyttelton, interspersed with another curious Coccid, feeding on ''Muehlenbeckia'', a creeping plant growing thereabouts". The new genus name ''Coelostoma'' was later found to be already in use, and Cockerell in 1900 proposed the new genus ''Coelostomidia'' to replace it. ''C. zealandica'' was redescribed by Morrison & Morrison in 1922, who also provided a full diagnosis of ''Coelostomidia''. The type specimens are now housed in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, Auckland. Excretion of honeydew ''C. zealandica'' feeds on sap and then ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemiptera
Hemiptera (; ) is an order (biology), order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, Reduviidae, assassin bugs, Cimex, bed bugs, and shield bugs. They range in size from to around , and share a common arrangement of piercing-sucking Insect mouthparts, mouthparts. The name "true bugs" is often limited to the suborder Heteroptera. Entomologists reserve the term ''bug'' for Hemiptera or Heteroptera,Gilbert Waldbauer. ''The Handy Bug Answer Book.'' Visible Ink, 1998p. 1. which does not include other arthropods or insects of other orders such as Ant, ants, Bee, bees, Beetle, beetles, or Butterfly, butterflies. In some variations of English, all Terrestrial animal, terrestrial arthropods (including non-insect arachnids, and myriapods) also fall under the Colloquialism, colloquial understanding of ''bug''. Many insects with "bug" in their common name, especially in American English, belo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
