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

by William Miles Maskell

The small puparia and the contiguous abdominal lobes of the female distinguish this species.

Genus: POLIASPIS, Maskell; N.Z. Trans., Vol. XII., 1879, p. 293.

Female puparia elongated; pellicles at one end. Male puparia narrower, elongated, pellicle at one end. Female with more than five groups of spinnerets; abdomen without fringe.

In the kindred genus, Leucaspis, Targioni-Tozzetti (Signoret, loc. cit., 1868, p. 101), the abdomen has a continuous fringe of long spines, and the groups of spinnerets vary in number from five to eight.

25. Poliaspis media, Maskell.

N.Z. Trans., Vol. XII., 1879, p. 293.

([Plate VI.], Fig. 5.)

Female puparium white, elongated, pyriform, slightly convex; length, about ¹/₁₈in.

Male puparium elongated, narrow, white, doubtfully carinated.