Pulvinaria vitis (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Woolly Vine Scale Insect, Woolly Currant Scale Insect)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Pulvinaria vitis (Woolly Vine Scale Insect, Woolly Currant Scale Insect)
Genus	Pulvinaria (a genus of scale insects)
Family	COCCIDAE (soft scales)
Superfamily	COCCOIDEA (scale insects, coccids)
Suborder	STERNORRHYNCHA (a suborder of bugs)
Order	HEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division	Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Pulvinaria vitis is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	O’Connor, J.P., Gertsson, C-A. & Malumphy, C.	2013	A review of the Irish scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea)	Irish Nat. J. Vol 32 (1): 32-44.

Pulvinaria vitis (Woolly Vine Scale Insect, Woolly Currant Scale Insect) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Pulvinaria
(a genus of scale insects)

COCCIDAE
(soft scales)

COCCOIDEA
(scale insects, coccids)

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Pulvinaria vitis (Woolly Vine Scale Insect, Woolly Currant Scale Insect)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 10 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Pulvinaria vitis (Woolly Vine Scale Insect, Woolly Currant Scale Insect)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Pulvinaria vitis is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)