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Ensign Scales
Ortheziidae
Ortheziidae is a family of scale insects commonly known as the ensign scales or ortheziids. They occur in most parts of the world but the majority of the species are found in the Neotropics and Nearctic regions while there are not many species in Australasia and the Far East. There are twenty valid genera and 198 species.
10 branches of this family, most-observed first
Orthezia
genusOrthezia
Insignorthezia
genusInsignorthezia
Newsteadia
genusNewsteadia
Praelongorthezia
genusPraelongorthezia
Arctorthezia
genusArctorthezia
Graminorthezia
genusGraminorthezia
Nipponorthezia
genusNipponorthezia
Ortheziolamameti
genusOrtheziolamameti
Ortheziola
genusOrtheziola
Nipponorthezinella
genusNipponorthezinella
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 49576.