Orthezia urticae

Orthezia urticae is a species of scale insect in the family Ortheziidae.[1][2]

Orthezia urticae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Superfamily:
Coccoidea
Family:
Ortheziidae
Genus:
Orthezia
Species:
Orthezia urticae
Binomial name
Orthezia urticae
Synonyms

Orthezia arenariae Vayssière, 1924
Orthezia japonica Kuwana, 1917
Orthezia martelli Leonardi, 1908
Orthezia maenariensis Douglas, 1884
Orthezia urticae Signoret, 1876
Orthezia cataphracta Signoret, 1876
Dorthezia dispar Kaltenbach, 1874
Dorthesia urticae Burmeister, 1835
Coccus glechomae Burmeister, 1835
Dorthezia delavauxii Thiebaut, 1825
Aphis urticata Stewart, 1802
Coccus dubius Fabricius, 1794
Coccus characias Olivier, 1791
Dorthezia characias Bosc d'Antic, 1785
Orthezia characias Bosc d'Antic, 1784
Aphis urticae Linnaeus, 1758

Taxonomy

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

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

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 is 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]

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 — ISBN 5744209212.
  2. 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.
  3. Kozár, F. (2004). Ortheziidae of the World. Budapest, Hungary: Plant Protection Institute. Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Literature
  • Gullan, P. J. & Kosztarab. (1997). "Adaptations in scale insects". Annual Review of Entomology (Annual Review of Entomology ed.). 42: 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.
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