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

by William Miles Maskell

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

Adult female hemispherical, with broad flattened edges; reddish-brown; diameter, about ¹/₁₅in. Skin regularly marked with oval perforations; no keels. Antennæ of eight joints. Feet normal, thin. Anal ring with eight hairs.

Male unknown.

Habitat in New Zealand—On Camellia, Hutt Valley, Wellington; in Europe, on Dracæna australis; in America, on various greenhouse plants (Comstock). Query—Does the European habitat denote an Australian origin?

This insect belongs to Signoret's fourth series.

45. Lecanium hesperidum, Linnæus.

L. hesperidum, Linnæus, Syst. Nat., 1735, II., 739, 1; Faun. Suec., 1746, 1015.

Coccus hesperidum, various authors.

Calymnatus hesperidum, Costa, Nuov. Osserv., 1835?

Calypticus hesperidum, Costa, Faun. Ins. Nap. Gall-insect., 1837, 8, 1; Lubbock, Proc. Roy. Soc., IX., 480; Beck, Trans. Roy. Micr. Soc., 1861, 47, &c.