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A Supplementary List of the Host Plants of Lac Insects Laccifer lacca
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Role of lac culture in biodiversity conservation: issues at stake and conservation strategy
TL;DR: Promoting and encouraging lac culture will not only check environmental degradation but also conserve associated fauna and flora for posterity.
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Taxonomic Studies on Lac Insects of India. (Homoptera : Tachardiidae)*
TL;DR: Lac insects of India belong to 2 genera, Kerria and Paratachardina, and three species and subspecies of Kerria are dealt with, of which 3 are new (brancheata, chamberlini and nepalensis) and two others have been redescribed.
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Taxonomic review of the lac insect genus Paratachardina Balachowsky (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Kerriidae), with a revised key to genera of Kerriidae and description of two new species
Takumasa Kondo,Penny J. Gullan +1 more
TL;DR: One of the new species described here is the polyphagous and pestiferous lobate lac scale, which damages trees and woody shrubs in Florida, U.S.A, and has been identified mistakenly as Paratachardina lobata (Chamberlin), an insect native to India and Sri Lanka.
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A review of Indian Coccids (Homoptera: Coccoidea)
TL;DR: The Superfamily Coccoidea includes at present approximately 6000 species descibed from all over the world and about 630 species (10.5%) are at present known from the Indian region, comprising India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
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A review of the family Tachardiidae (Kerridae) in the Orient (Homoptera: Coccoidea)
TL;DR: The morphological characters of the adult female of the Family Tachardiidae are greatly degenerated and the body is membranous and somewhat globular, without visible segmentation or even demarcation of body into head, thorax and abdomen.