ERIOCOCCIDAE
(felt scales)

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ID refs
Eriococcus devoniensis
a scale bug
Species 2 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyERIOCOCCIDAE (felt 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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Williams, J.D. 1985 The British and some other European Eriococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea) Bull.br.Mus.nat.Hist.Entomol. 51 (4): 347-393.

ERIOCOCCIDAE (felt scales) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for ERIOCOCCIDAE (felt scales)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for ERIOCOCCIDAE (felt scales)
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