Coccoidea or scale insects are typically small phloem feeders; they are found on various parts of their host plants, and may infest leaves, twigs, branches and roots, in agricultural, forest and ornamental ecosystems worldwide. Many are highly damaging to their hosts, but others produce useful dyes, or valuable secretions in the form of waxes and resins. Between 2015 and 2016, scale insects were collected intensively in central, northern and southern Laos, resulting in a totally of 71 species belonging to 7 families of Coccoidea. Among these are 25 species recorded from Laos for the first time, they are almost pests, but Kerria lacca (Kerr) an economic species which produces shellac for export.

• Pheophanh Soysouvanh(Department of Plant Medicine, Sunchon National University)
• Ki-Jeong Hong(Department of Plant Medicine, Sunchon National University)