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SCALE INSECT

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 283 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SCALE INSECT , a name given to
insects
  belonging to the family Coccidae of the homopterous division of the Hemiptera and deriving their name from the formation by the
females
  of a waxy secretion which often hardens into a protective
scale
  beneath which the
insects
  live.
Honey
 -dew, a sweet sticky substance is also secreted by some members of the family. The
females
  are always wingless, but are provided with antennae, legs and well-
developed
  mouth-parts. In some cases these
organ
 . are retained, in some they are lost in the encysted
condition
 . The
males
 , on the contrary, although sometimes wingless, are, as a
rule
 , provided with a pair of large forewings and greatly reduced hindwings; their antennae and legs are longer than in the other sex, but the mouth-parts are reduced and functionless (See ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY).


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