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)
COCCIDAE
(soft scales)
Eulecanium
(a genus of soft scales)
Eulecanium excrescens
(Wisteria Scale)
Eulecanium excrescens
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Eulecanium excrescens (Ferris) (Wisteria Scale)

Notes (MWS) A large (10-12mm) scale insect recently found in London on Wisteria and Prunus, but it may spread to other hosts.

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Malumphy, C.P., 2005 Eulecanium excrescens (Ferris) (Hemiptera: Coccidae), an Asian pest of woody ornamentals and fruit trees, new to Britain

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 general literature references to Eulecanium excrescens (Wisteria Scale)

Eulecanium excrescens may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 HOMOPTERA
(bugs)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 7 feeding and other relationships of Eulecanium excrescens (Wisteria Scale)

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