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Cryptococcus fagisuga (beech scale; felted beech coccus; beech eriococcin; beech coccus)

Synonyms: Coccus fagi (heterotypic); Cryptococcus fagi; Eriococcus fagi; Kermes fagi; Pseudococcus fagi

Wikipedia Abstract

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 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.
View Wikipedia Record: Cryptococcus fagisuga

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Cryptococcus fagisuga

Prey / Diet

Fagus grandifolia (American beech)[1]
Fagus orientalis (Oriental Beech)[1]
Fagus sylvatica (European beech)[1]
Pinus sylvestris (Scots pine)[1]
Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane)[1]

Predators

Providers

Parasite of 
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0