BioImages (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Exopterygota
(insects with wings developing externally)
HOMOPTERA
(bugs)
COCCOIDEA
(scale insects, coccids)
MONOPLEBIDAE
(giant scales)
Icerya purchasi
(Fluted Scale, Cottony Cushion Scale)
Icerya purchasi
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Icerya purchasi (Fluted Scale, Cottony Cushion Scale)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

anon., 2010 An increasing range of invertebrate pests on Bay laurel (Laurus nobilis)

Icerya purchasi may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 HOMOPTERA
(bugs)		 COCCOIDEA
(scale insects, coccids)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 7 feeding and other relationships of Icerya purchasi (Fluted Scale, Cottony Cushion Scale)

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