SitkaNature: 1000 Species Project

Ensign Coccid
Ortheziidae

This looks like an insect to me, as it seems to have six legs. Beyond that, it does not look like anything I have ever seen before. It is very small, perhaps 3mm long and I found it at the base of a Swamp Gentian (Gentiana douglasiana) I collected in a bog. Any help with the identification is definitely appreciated.

Update 21 September 2007: With help from bugguide.net, I now have a family for this insect.