Orthezia urticae explained

Orthezia urticae is a species of scale insect in the family Ortheziidae.

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus under the original name . Taxon was then moved to the genus together with,,,,,,, and others.^{[1] [2]}

Distribution

Palearctic realm

northern Eurasia and northern Africa (except deserts) from Western Europe to Algeria, Morocco, China and Turkmenistan.^[3] In Russia it is present in: Kamchatka Krai, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin Oblast, Kuril Islands and Tyumen Oblast.

Description

Small lamellar insects. From above, the back of females is oval and covered with six white wax plates. The wax coating is rounded. The anatomy of males and larvae are not well known. 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).

Literature

• Gullan, P. J. & Kosztarab. . Adaptations in scale insects . Annual Review of Entomology. . 1997 . 1997 . 42 . 23–50 . 10.1146/annurev.ento.42.1.23 . 15012306 . en.
• Book: Kozár, F. . Budapest, Hungary . 2004 . Plant Protection Institute. Hungarian Academy of Sciences .

External links

• Web site: Orthezia urticae (Linnaeus 1758) . 2014 . Fauna Europaea . faunaeur.org . en.
• Web site: Orthezia urticae . Eol.org . 2014-07-30 . en.
• Web site: Orthezia urticae . Ben-Dov, Y. . 30 July 2014 . Scale insect web catalog . scalenet.info . 2014-07-30 . en . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140811203402/http://scalenet.info/validname/Orthezia/urticae/ . 2014-08-11.

Notes and References

1. Определитель насекомых Дальнего Востока СССР. Т. II. Равнокрылые и полужесткокрылые / под общ. red. П. А. Лера. — Lit. Наука, 1988. — p. 693, 695-696 — 1950 — .
2. Book: Kozár, F. . Budapest, Hungary . 2004 . Plant Protection Institute. Hungarian Academy of Sciences .
3. Web site: Ben-Dov, Y. . 30 July 2014 . Orthezia urticae . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140811203402/http://scalenet.info/validname/Orthezia/urticae/ . 2014-08-11 . 2014-07-30 . Scale insect web catalo . scalenet.info . en.