Pulvinaria floccifera (Westwood, 1870)
(Cushion Scale, Cottony Camellia Scale)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesPulvinaria floccifera (Cushion Scale, Cottony Camellia Scale)
GenusPulvinaria (a genus of scale insects)
FamilyCOCCIDAE (soft scales)
SuperfamilyCOCCOIDEA (scale insects, coccids)
SuborderSTERNORRHYNCHA (a suborder of bugs)
OrderHEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Pulvinaria floccifera (Cushion Scale, Cottony Camellia Scale) :
1: Pulvinaria floccifera (Cushion Scale, Cottony Camellia Scale)
1 Jul 2017 OSGR: SU00 50° 50’ N, 1° 60’ W Vice County: Dorset (VC 9) England
old egg masses with nymphs within, on undersides of leaves of Rhododendron
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Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Anon. 2009 Cottony camellia scale, an increasingly important horticultural pest Plant Clinic News June 09: 1.

Pulvinaria floccifera (Cushion Scale, Cottony Camellia Scale) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Pulvinaria floccifera (Cushion Scale, Cottony Camellia Scale)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 13 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Pulvinaria floccifera (Cushion Scale, Cottony Camellia Scale)
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