Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Arthropoda (phylum)
8. Hexapoda (subphylum)
9. Insecta (class)
10. Hemiptera (order)

Narrower term/s

• Ceroplastes (genus)
• Kermesidae (family)[+]
  • Kermes (genus)

Anotations

Scope note:

Family of scale insects the female members of which have flat, elongated oval bodies and a smooth integument which may be covered with wax. In some genera they possess legs but in others, they do not, and the antennae may be shortened or missing. The males may be alate or apterous.