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Which family in Coccoidea?
pierred
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Posted on 25-04-2017 09:37
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Hello,

www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/image/dos181/big/5db26530.jpg
Pierre Duhem : France : Étiolles : 91450 : 21/04/2017
Altitude : 87 m - Taille : 5-6 mm
Réf. : 181227

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Pierre Duhem : France : Étiolles : 91450 : 21/04/2017
Altitude : 87 m - Taille : 5-6 mm
Réf. : 181228

I pictured this little male criter in the Sénart forest (near Paris).
Does this ring a bell for some of you?
Thanks in advance.
Pierre Duhem
 
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maybe Eriosomatidae - Woolly aphids
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Thanks for this proposition.

Do you really think this is an Aphid?
Edited by pierred on 29-04-2017 11:38
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for me it is a male Ortheziidae
very general entomologist
 
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Very interesting proposition.
Do you have reference pictures?
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Posted on 03-05-2017 18:39
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here you are...
mwkozlowski attached the following image:


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very general entomologist
 
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Posted on 03-05-2017 19:43
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Wonderful. Thanks a lot.

As a matter of fact, Orthezia urticae was first described by Linnaeus as Aphis urticae.
Edited by pierred on 03-05-2017 19:57
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