Orthezia urticae

Orthezia urticae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Family:	Ortheziidae
Genus:	Orthezia
Species:	O. urticae
Binomial name
Orthezia urticae (Linnaeus, 1758)
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

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

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 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]

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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. 42 (Annual Review of Entomology ed.): 23–50. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.42.1.23. PMID 15012306.
• Kozár, F. (2004). Ortheziidae of the World. Budapest, Hungary: Plant Protection Institute. Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

External links

• "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.