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

by William Miles Maskell

5. Aspidiotus coccineus, Gennadius.[K]

Aspidiotus aurantii, Maskell.

N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 199.

Aspidiotus citri, Comstock; Canadian Entom., Vol. XIII., p. 8.

([Plate IV.], Fig. 3.)

[K] The author has not been able to find the original description of Gennadius, which appears to have been contained in a report to the Minister for Agriculture in Greece. Dr. Signoret states that there is a reference to it in "Risso, Histoire Naturelle des Oranges," Vol. I., p. 220.

Female puparium really dirty-white, but seeming yellowish-brown, from the colour of the insect beneath; sometimes dark-brown; circular, flat; diameter, about ¹/₁₁in.

Male puparium much smaller, rather oval.

Adult female yellow, becoming brown at last; peg-top shaped, but the abdominal segment is comparatively so small and is so much overlapped by the others that the insect looks almost globular; length, about ¹/₁₅in. Abdomen ending in six lobes (of which the two median are the largest), and several scaly hairs. No groups of spinnerets.