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Family	Asterolecaniidae
Sub Family
Description	Pit scales or asterolecaniids
Background to Family	Indigenous species, particularly associated with oaks (Quercus), and non-natives occurring on a wide range of perennial angiosperms, including the glasshouse pest Asterodiaspis pustulans.

No. taxa in DBIF	6
No. interactions	56
% interactions with British data	see notes
No. records	58
% taxa with British data	see notes
Notes	The Coccoidea, or scale insects, are highly adapted, sedentary feeders on mostly Angiosperm hosts. Females have neither eyes or wings, and legs and antennae are reduced or absent. The first instar 'crawler' is the dispersive stage, as is the short-lived, winged male. Females usually reproduce parthenogenetically. Most records in the database are derived from the slide collection of The Natural History Museum. ; Geographical sources of the records refer to both British and foreign regions. They indicate where the scale was recorded and where the host plant originated. Many, if not most, species will be unestablished in the wild in Great Britain.;
Notes on Sources
Most recent source	1979

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Source	() Hemiptera: Coccoidea Slide Collection :
Source	Bognar, S. & Vinis, G.(1979) Acta Agron. Hung. 28 13-26:16

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