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

by William Miles Maskell

Adult male unknown.

Habitat—On Dysoxylon spectabile, Wellington.

Allied to A. atherospermæ, but differing in the abdominal lobes and spinnerets.

7. Aspidiotus epidendri, Bouché.

Chermes epidendri, Boisduval; Ent. Hort., 1867, p. 339.

Aspidiotus epidendri, Signoret, loc. cit., 1869, p. 121.

N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 197.

Female puparium circular, flat, dirty-white or brownish; diameter, about ¹/₁₂in.

Male puparium elongated, the sides parallel.