Kermes vermilio

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| name = Kermes vermilio

| taxon = Kermes vermilio

| authority = Planchon, 1864

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Kermes vermilio is a species of Kermes that feeds on trees. Some of the species are used to make vermilion; though a mineral form used in many cultures and discovered at a similar time is cinnabar (crystallized HgS, mercury sulfide).{{cite book |last = Eastaugh |first = Nicholas |title = Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments | publisher = Butterworth-Heinemann |year = 2004 |isbn = 0-7506-5749-9|page=211}} For details of further chemical alternatives see vermilion.