| Cryptococcus fagisuga | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Eriococcidae |
| Genus: | Cryptococcus |
| Species: | C. fagisuga
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| Binomial name | |
| Cryptococcus fagisuga Lindinger, 1936[1]
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Cryptococcus fagisuga, commonly known as the beech scale or woolly beech scale, is a felted scale insect in the superfamily Coccoidea that infests beech trees of the genus Fagus. It is associated with the transmission of beech bark disease[3] because the puncture holes it makes in the bark allow entry of pathogenic fungi which have been identified as Nectria coccinea var. faginata and sometimes Nectria galligena.[4][5]
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- ^ Campbell, Faith (August 2004). "Beech Bark Disease". Don't Move Firewood.
- ^ Houston, D R (1994). "Major New Tree Disease Epidemics: Beech Bark Disease". Annual Review of Phytopathology. 32: 75–87. doi:10.1146/annurev.py.32.090194.000451.
- ^ U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service[permanent dead link][full citation needed]