An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agriculture and Plants in New Zealand: The Scale Insects (Coccididae)Maskell, William Miles
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An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agriculture and Plants in New Zealand: The Scale Insects (Coccididae)
Maskell, William Miles
Insects -- New Zealand; Scale insects
Adult females lying on cushion of cotton; retaining feet
and antennæ
Gossyparia.
Adult females enclosed in a cottony sac; apodous; with or
without antennæ; excreting from the abdomen a very long
cottony appendage
Antonina.
The genus _Acanthococcus_, Signoret (loc. cit., 1874, p. 34), is here
united to _Eriococcus_; and the genus _Capulinia_, Signoret (loc. cit.,
1874, p. 27), to _Antonina_.
Subdivision II.
Adult females active or stationary; naked, or covered with
mealy, cottony, or waxy secretion; antennæ of from six to
nine joints; anogenital ring conspicuous, with several long
hairs; anal tubercles inconspicuous. Eyes of male sometimes
facetted
Dactylopidæ.
Adult females having antennæ of eight joints; anogenital
ring with six hairs; naked, or covered with meal or cotton
Dactylopius.
Adult females having antennæ of nine joints; covered with
cottony secretion; anogenital ring with six hairs; upper
digitules of foot absent
Pseudococcus.
_Genera not yet represented in New Zealand._
Adult females having antennæ of six joints; covered with
mealy secretion; anogenital ring with six hairs
Ripersia.
Adult females having antennæ of nine joints; anogenital
ring with eight hairs; upper digitules of foot present
Puto.
Adult females having antennæ of eight joints; covered with
plates of waxy secretion; anogenital ring with six hairs.
Eyes of male facetted
Orthezia.
The genera _Westwoodia_ and _Boisduvalia_, Signoret (loc. cit., 1874,
pp. 337, 338), are here united to _Dactylopius_.
Subdivision III.
_Not yet represented in New Zealand._
Adult females active, covered with mealy secretion; antennæ
of seven joints; no hairs on anogenital ring. Eyes of male
not facetted
Coccidæ.
Adult females having antennæ of seven joints; no hairs on
anogenital ring
Coccus.
Subdivision IV.
Adult females active or stationary; naked, or covered
with mealy, waxy, or cottony secretion; antennæ of ten
or eleven joints; anterior pair of feet similar to the
rest; anogenital ring without hairs; anal tubercles
inconspicuous. Males with facetted eyes and no ocelli
Monophlebidæ.
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