Pseudochermes fraxini (Kaltenbach, 1860)
(Ash Bark Scale)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesPseudochermes fraxini (Ash Bark Scale)
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)

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.

Pseudochermes fraxini (Ash Bark Scale) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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