Kerria lacca

TaxID: 473130

Basic Information

Kerria lacca

Lac Insect, common lac scale

Kerria lacca is a species of insect in the family Kerriidae, the lac insects. These are in the superfamily Coccoidea, the scale insects. This species is perhaps the most commercially important lac insect, being a main source of lac, a resin which can be refined into shellac and other products. This insect is native to Asia.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Hemiptera

Tachardiidae

Kerria

lacca

nan

Photos (5 photos)

Kerria lacca
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Kerria lacca
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Kerria lacca
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(c) shulinchen@BY-NC
Kerria lacca
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(c) 大肚魚@BY-NC
Kerria lacca
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(c) 吳友誠@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —

Distribution (1 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
India Present —

Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_045014175.1 Complete Genome 256 28534 28534 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR22135817 body - female 43995138 -
SRR22135816 body - female 43988668 -
SRR33113002 whole body - female 68827748 India

DNA Barcodes (151 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
GBMNE22919-21 BOLD:AAZ8349 COI-5P 657 India 2018-10-23 22.3506, 88.1714
GBMND6005-21 BOLD:AAZ8349 COI-5P 462 India 2016-05-25 30.839, 74.462
GBMND6004-21 BOLD:AAZ8349 COI-5P 470 India 2015-01-09 30.8119, 75.3092
GBMND6003-21 BOLD:AAZ8349 COI-5P 491 India 2015-06-22 30.65, 75.6
GBMND6002-21 BOLD:AAZ8349 COI-5P 471 India 2015-10-15 30.4868, 75.2856
GBMND6001-21 BOLD:AAZ8349 COI-5P 497 India 2015-11-19 30.2576, 75.34
GBMND6000-21 BOLD:AAZ8349 COI-5P 487 India 2016-06-06 28.666, 77.226
GBMND5999-21 BOLD:AAZ8349 COI-5P 464 India 2016-06-08 28.584, 77.163
GBMND5998-21 BOLD:AAZ8349 COI-5P 496 India 2016-06-08 28.2629, 77.058
GBMND5997-21 BOLD:AAZ8349 COI-5P 487 India 2016-06-10 26.5261, 80.513
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