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Nettle Ensign Scale
Orthezia urticae
Orthezia urticae is a species of scale insect in the family Ortheziidae.
From the article Orthezia urticae on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Small lamellar insects. From above, the back of females is oval and covered with six white wax plates. The wax coating is rounded. The anatomy of males and larvae are not well known. 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).
Range & habitat
Palearctic realm: northern Eurasia and northern Africa (except deserts) from Western Europe to Algeria, Morocco, China and Turkmenistan. In Russia it is present in: Kamchatka Krai, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin Oblast, Kuril Islands and Tyumen Oblast.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 554438.