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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and Allies
  6. Plant-parasitic Hemipterans
  7. Scale Insects

superfamily

Scale Insects

Coccoidea

Includes
126 native 32 introduced 10 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Armored Scale Insects 43 native
  • Soft Scales 26 native
  • Mealybugs 10 native
  • Gall-like Scales 10 native
  • Ensign Scales 9 native
  • Felt Scales 5 native
  • Giant Scale Insects 4 native
  • Giant Mealybugs 3 native
  • Lac Scales 3 native
  • Lecanodiaspididae 2 native
  • Aclerdid Scales 2 native
  • Cochineal Insects 2 native
  • Ground Pearls 1 native
  • Pine Bark Scales 1 native
  • Steingeliidae 1 native
  • Kuwaniidae 1 native
  • Xylococcidae 1 native
  • Ornate Pit Scales 1 native
  • Pupillarial Palm Scales 1 native
  • Palm Scales
  • Coelostomidiidae
  • Rhizoecidae
  • False Armoured Scales
  • Pit Scales

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native scale insects All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Stellate Scale Insect Ceroplastes stellifer 122 observations
  • Buffalo Mountain Mealybug Puto kosztarabi 6 observations
  • Phyllococcus oahuensis 4 observations

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