Biology:Kermes (insect)
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Short description: Genus of true bugs
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| Kermes echinatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Kermesidae |
| Genus: | Kermes Latreille, 1798 |
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Kermes is a genus of scale insects in the order Hemiptera. They feed on the sap of oaks; the females produce a red dye, also called "kermes", that is the source of natural crimson.[1] The word "kermes" is derived from Turkish qirmiz or kirmizi (قرمز), "crimson" (both the colour and the dyestuff),[2] deriving itself from Persian *کرمست (*kermest) via Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷŕ̥mis (“worm”).[3]
There are some 20 species,[4] including:
- Kermes bacciformis Leonardi, 1908
- Kermes corticalis (Nassonov, 1908)
- Kermes echinatus (Balachowsky, 1953)
- Kermes gibbosus Signoret, 1875
- Kermes ilicis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Kermes roboris (Fourcroy, 1785)
- Kermes vermilio Planchon, 1864
References
- ↑ Naturenet article with images and description of Kermes vermilio and its foodplant
- ↑ "Crimson (n.)". Etymology Online. https://www.etymonline.com/word/crimson. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
- ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/k%CA%B7%C5%95%CC%A5mis [bare URL]
- ↑ Spodek, Malkie; Ben-Dov, Yair (2012). "Morphology of the first-instar nymph and adult female of Kermes echinatus Balachowsky, with a comparison to K. vermilio Planchon (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Kermesidae)". ZooKeys (246): 11–26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.246.3766. ISSN 1313-2970. PMID 23275748. Bibcode: 2012ZooK..246...11S.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q2383821 entry
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