Orthezia urticae is a species of scale insect in the family Ortheziidae.[1][2]
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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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| Binomial name | |
| Orthezia urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Orthezia arenariae Vayssière, 1924 | |
Taxonomy edit
The species was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus under the original name Aphis urticae Linnaeus, 1758. Taxon was then moved to the genus Orthezia Bosc, 1784 together with O. yashushii, O. ambrosicola, O. annae, O. argrimoniae, O. boliviana, O. sonorensis, O. lasiorum, and others.[2][1][3]
Distribution edit
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 edit
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 are 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]
Image gallery edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ a b c d e Ben-Dov, Y. (30 July 2014). "Orthezia urticae". Scale insect web catalo. scalenet.info. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
- ^ Kozár, F. (2004). Ortheziidae of the World. Budapest, Hungary: Plant Protection Institute. Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Literature edit
- Gullan, P. J. & Kosztarab. (1997). "Adaptations in scale insects". Annual Review of Entomology. 42 (Annual Review of Entomology ed.): 23–50. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.42.1.23. PMID 15012306.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Kozár, F. (2004). Ortheziidae of the World. Budapest, Hungary: Plant Protection Institute. Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
External links edit
- "Orthezia urticae (Linnaeus 1758)". Fauna Europaea. faunaeur.org. 2014.
- "Orthezia urticae". Eol.org. 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. Retrieved 2014-07-30.