Dactylopius coccus (binomen ab Orontio Gabriele Costa anno 1835 statutum), vulgo cochinilla,[1] est insectum Coccoideum subordinis Sternorrhynchorum, ex quo tinctura coccum (carmesium) extrahitur. Insectum, parasitus plerumque sessilis, in cactis generis Opuntiae habitat, sucum eorum edens.
et mas (ad dextram)
Ordo : Hemiptera
Superfamilia : Coccoidea
Familia : Dactylopiidae
Genus : Dactylopius
Species : D. coccus
Costa, 1835
Insectum acetum carminicum creat, quod alia insecta praedatoria deterret. Hoc acetum, 17–24% ponderis insectorum siccatorum componens, ex corpore ovisque extrahitur, deinde salibus aluminii vel calcii miscetur, ad tincturam conficiendam.
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