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Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org
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Image Number: 5488889

sooty beech scale (Ultracoelostoma assimile (Maskell, 1890)) (Maskell, 1890)

Photographer:
Whitney Cranshaw
Organization:
Colorado State University
Descriptor:
Feature(s)
Description:
Sooty mold covering black beech. The honeydew is excreted by the sooty beech scale via tubes that pentrate the sooty mold crust.
Image type:
Field
Host:
black beech (Nothofagus solandri (Hook.f.) Oerst.)

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Image location:
, Along Queen Charlotte Track

Subject

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Margarodidae
Genus: Ultracoelostoma
Subject: Ultracoelostoma assimile (Maskell, 1890)

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Hamamelidae
Order: Fagales
Family: Nothofagaceae
Genus: Nothofagus
Subject: Nothofagus solandri (Hook.f.) Oerst.
Node Affiliation:
Bugwood - UGA
Image uploaded:
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Image last updated:
Wednesday, March 6, 2013