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

by William Miles Maskell

43. Lecanium depressum, Targioni-Tozzetti, Catal. (1868), 37, 8; Stud. sul Coccin., 29.

Maskell, N.Z. Trans., Vol. XI., 1878, p. 206.

([Plate XI.], Fig. 1.)

Adult female elongated, somewhat acuminate at the cephalic end, slightly convex; reddish-brown; skin marked with two dorsal keels and numerous irregular tessellations, finely punctate. Antennæ of eight joints; on the first two and the last three joints some hairs. Feet normal, rather long; one of the lower digitules is larger than the other. Length of insect, about ¹/₁₀in.

Male unknown.

Habitat in New Zealand—On plants in greenhouses; Christchurch, Wellington. In Europe, on Ficus, in hothouses.

This insect belongs to Signoret's fifth series.

44. Lecanium hemisphæricum, Targioni-Tozzetti, Stud. sul Coccin., 27.

Chermes filicum, Boisduval (1867), 336; Targioni, Catal., 1868, 38, 17.

Maskell, N.Z. Trans., Vol. XVII., 1884, p. 29.