Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hemiptera > Diaspididae > Lepidosaphes > Lepidosaphes ulmi

Lepidosaphes ulmi (apple oystershell scale; appletree bark louse; butternut bark-louse; fig oystershell scale; fig scale; greater fig mussel scale; linden oystershell scale; Mediterranean fig scale; mussel scale; oyster-shell bark-louse; oyster-shell bark-louse of the apple; oystershell scale; oyster-shell scale; pear oystershell scale; poplar oystershell scale; red oystershell scale; vine mussel scale)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lepidosaphes ulmi also known as apple mussel scale or oystershell scale is a scale insect that is a pest of trees and woody plants. The small insects attach themselves to bark and cause injury by sucking the tree's sap; this metabolic drain on the plant may kill a branch or the entire tree.
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♦ 1Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
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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