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Physokermes
Sign in to savePhysokermes are a genus of scale insects known as the bud scales. They are restricted to the Holarctic, though Physokermes hemicryphus has been introduced to North America. Some species are plant pests.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 65
- With media
- 63
- Family
- Coccidae
- Collections
- NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom, United States, Hungary, Italy
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Physokermes are a genus of scale insects known as the bud scales. They are restricted to the Holarctic, though Physokermes hemicryphus has been introduced to North America. Some species are plant pests.
==Morphology== Pre-reproductive females are membranous and reddish-brown, once females begin to lay eggs they are globular or kidney-shaped become light to dark brown, and eventually heavily sclerotized. The adult females resemble the bud of their coniferous hosts, hence the name bud scale.
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