An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agriculture and Plants in New Zealand / The Scale Insects (Coccididae)

by William Miles Maskell

Habitat—On silver-wattle, Nelson. The insect is European, and found there on Budlæia salicina.

Closely allied to A. nerii, but differing in the lobes and spinnerets of the abdomen.

3. Aspidiotus Camelliæ, Boisduval.

Kermes camelliæ, Boisduval, Ent. Hort., p. 334.

Aspidiotus camelliæ, Signoret, loc. cit., 1869, p. 117.

N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 200; Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 21.

([Plate IV.], Fig. 2.)

Female puparium nearly circular, convex, greyish or brownish in colour, about ¹/₁₅in. in diameter; pellicles often at one side.

Male puparium rather smaller, oval.

Adult female of normal shape, but somewhat elongated. Abdomen ending in two lobes, with a few scattered scaly hairs. No groups of spinnerets.