BRC - Database of Insects and their Food Plants


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Family	Ortheziidae
Sub Family
Description	Ensign scales or ortheziids
Background to Family	Native and introduced scales, often root-feeding, including the arctic-alpine Arctorthezia cataphracta, which is recorded from herbs, shrubs, trees and even mosses.

No. taxa in DBIF	5
No. interactions	75
% interactions with British data	see notes
No. records	79
% 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	1982

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Source	Williams, D.J.(1982) Entomologist's mon. Mag. 118 27-28:28
Source	() Hemiptera: Coccoidea Slide Collection :

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