Lepidosaphes | |
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Lepidosaphes ulmi (Oystershell scale) on tree — an introduced pest insect. At Rock Corral Campground in Milford, Utah, the Western United States | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
Family: | Diaspididae |
Subtribe: | Lepidosaphidina |
Genus: | Lepidosaphes Shimer, 1868 |
Lepidosaphes is a genus of scales and mealybugs in the family Diaspididae. There are at least 150 described species in Lepidosaphes.[1]