Biology:Orthezia urticae
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Ortheziidae |
| Genus: | Orthezia |
| Species: | O. urticae
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| Orthezia urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Orthezia arenariae Vayssière, 1924 | |
Orthezia urticae is a species of scale insect in the family Ortheziidae.[1][2]
Taxonomy
The species was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus under the original name Template:Btname. Taxon was then moved to the genus Template:Btname together with Template:Btname, Template:Btname, Template:Btname, Template:Btname, Template:Btname, Template:Btname, Template:Btname, and others.[2][1][3]
Distribution
Palearctic realm: northern Eurasia and northern Africa (except deserts) from Western Europe to Algeria, Morocco, China and Turkmenistan.[2] In Russia it is present in: Kamchatka Krai, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin Oblast, Kuril Islands and Tyumen Oblast.[1]
Description
Small lamellar insects. From above, the back of females is oval and covered with six white wax plates.[2] The wax coating is rounded. The anatomy of males and larvae is not well known.[2] The insects have 7-8 pairs of abdominal spiracles. Found on stems and leaves, they feed on the juices of various herbaceous plants, such as nettle, wormwood, bergenia, spirea and many others (wide polyphagy).[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Определитель насекомых Дальнего Востока СССР. Т. II. Равнокрылые и полужесткокрылые / под общ. red. П. А. Лера. — Lit. Наука, 1988. — p. 693, 695-696 — 1950 — ISBN:5744209212.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Ben-Dov, Y. (30 July 2014). "Orthezia urticae". Scale insect web catalo. scalenet.info. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20140811203402/http://scalenet.info/validname/Orthezia/urticae/. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
- ↑ Kozár, F. (2004). Ortheziidae of the World. Budapest, Hungary: Plant Protection Institute. Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Literature
- Gullan, P. J. & Kosztarab. (1997). "Adaptations in scale insects" (in en). Annual Review of Entomology 42: 23–50. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.42.1.23. PMID 15012306.
- Kozár, F. (2004). Ortheziidae of the World. Budapest, Hungary: Plant Protection Institute. Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
External links
- "Orthezia urticae (Linnaeus 1758)". Fauna Europaea. faunaeur.org. 2014. https://fauna-eu.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/ae8d9940-cba7-439a-ad39-d2356923a647.
- "Orthezia urticae". Eol.org. http://eol.org/pages/840137/overview. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
- Ben-Dov, Y. (30 July 2014). "Orthezia urticae". Scale insect web catalog. scalenet.info. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20140811203402/http://scalenet.info/validname/Orthezia/urticae/. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
Wikidata ☰ Q10612274 entry
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