09-08-2023-2121 - draft (The Armenian cochineal (Porphyrophora hamelii), etc., draft)

Armenian cochineal
Porphyrophora hamelii (female)
Porphyrophora hamelii (male)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Family:	Margarodidae
Genus:	Porphyrophora
Species:	P. hamelii
Binomial name
Porphyrophora hamelii Brandt, 1833
Synonyms [1]
Porphyrophora hameli Brandt, 1834 (revived by Jakubski, 1965) Porphyrophora armeniaca Burmeister, 1835 Coccus radicis Meyer, 1856 Margarodes hameli Cockerell, 1902 and Fernald, 1903 Coccionella armeniaca Lindinger, 1954 Coccionella hamelii Lindinger, 1954 Coccionella hameli Lindinger, 1954

The Armenian cochineal (Porphyrophora hamelii), also known as the Ararat cochineal or Ararat scale, is a scale insect indigenous to the Ararat plain and Aras (Araks) River valley in the Armenian Highlands and in Turkey. It was formerly used to produce an eponymous crimson carmine dyestuff known in Armenia as vordan karmir (Armenian: որդան կարմիր, literally "worm's red") and historically in Persia as kirmiz.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} The species is critically endangered within Armenia.^[7]

The Armenian cochineal scale insect, Porphyrophora hamelii, is in a different taxonomic family from the cochineal found in the Americas. Both insects produce red dyestuffs that are also commonly called cochineal.^[8] 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_cochineal