Bed-jacket vs yarrow mealybug

Alectryon tomentosus compared with Atrococcus achilleae

Key Differences

• Bed-jacket is Least Concern while yarrow mealybug is Not Evaluated.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bed-jacket	yarrow mealybug
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Insecta (Insects)
Order	Sapindales (Sapindales)	Hemiptera (Hemiptera)
Family	Sapindaceae	Pseudococcidae
Genus	Alectryon	Atrococcus
Species	Alectryon tomentosus	Atrococcus achilleae

Conservation Status

Bed-jacket

LC — Least Concern

yarrow mealybug

NE — Not Evaluated

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bed-jacket	yarrow mealybug
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bed-jacket

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

yarrow mealybug

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Range

Distributed across Norway and Sweden.

Bed-jacket

The Bed-jacket (Alectryon tomentosus) is a species in the genus Alectryon. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.