102 A MANUAL OF DANGEROUS INSECTS. 



B. OTHER IMPORTANT FICUS INSECTS. 



HEMIPTERA. 

 Cocclds: 



Armored — 



Aspidiotus (Aonidia) planchonioides Green; Ceyloa (Botanic Gardens). 

 •if^Aspidiotus {Aonidiella) cocotiphagus Marlatt; Cuba. 

 Aspidiotus {Aonidiella) subcuticular is Green; Australia; Ficus orbicularis. 

 Aspidiotus {Chrysomphalus) personatus Gomstock; West Indies; Mexico; British Guiana; England 



(in greenhouses). 

 Aspidiotus {Diaspidiotus) africanus Marlatt; South Africa. 

 Aspidiotus ( Morganella) maskelli Cockerell; Bermuda. 

 ^Aspidiotus {Pseudaonidia) articulatus Morgan; Jamaica. 

 Aspidiotus (Pseudaonidia) clavigera Cockerell; Honolulu. 



Aspidiotus (Pseudaonidia) silvatica Lindinger; German East Africa ,Kamerun; Ficus indica. 

 Aspidiotus (Pseudaonidia) trilobiti/oTmis Green; East India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Japan, Brazil; Fieu$ 



scandcns (see text fig. 32.) 

 Aspidiotus (Pseudaonidia) o&si^o Cockerell and Robinson; Philippines; Ficus caudatif alia. 

 Schizaspis lobata Cockerell and Robinson; Ficus nota. 

 Chionaspis manni Green; India. 

 :4c Conchaspis angrseci Cockerell; established in Florida, and has doubtless been imported from Mexico 



and Jamaica on numerous occasions. Scale of female approximately circular, conical, apex bluntly 



pointed, radiating from apex are six to eight strong ridges or carinse. 

 Diaspis bromelix (Kern); Mexico. 



HemichioTiaspis fici Green; Bengal; Ficus glomerata, F. carica. 

 HemicMonaspis minima Green; India. 

 LepidosapJies ficifolii Tievlese; Algeria, Italy; Ficus carica. 

 Lepidosaphes mexicana Cockerell; Mexico. 

 Lepidosaphes minima Newstead; Algeria; Ficus carica. 

 Unarmored — 

 Anomalococcus cremastogastri Green; Ceylon; Ficus religiosa. 

 Asterolecanium pustulans Cockerell; Jamaica, Porto Rico, Antigua, Brazil, British Guiana, Grenada, 



Montserrat; fig. 

 Ceroplastes ceriferus Anderson; Ceylon; Ficus walkeriana. 

 Ceroplastes ficus Newstead; German East Africa; test of adult female hemispherical, thin, semitrans 



parent shaded with gray and brown. 

 Ceroplastes gowdeyi Newstead; Uganda Protectorate. 

 Ceroplastes myricx Linnaeus; Greece; fig. 

 Ceroplastes qv/tdrilineatus Newstead; British East Africa; test of adult provided with a pair of large 



divergent pyriform bodies, four white lines across dorsum. 

 Ceroplastes rubens Maskell; Australia, Hawaii, Japan; Ficus macrophylla. 

 Ceroplastes rusci Linnaeus; Europe, British Guiana, Algeria, Australia, Japan; adult female covered 



with wax in the form of plates; attacks Ficus elastica and F. carica. 

 Ceroplastes townsendi percrassus Cockerell; Mexico; adult female covered with wax of a faint yel- 

 lowish tint without division into plates. 

 Ceroputo yuccx. Coquillett; Mexico. 

 Drosicha maskelli Cockerell; Japan, China, Java. 

 Eriococcus crispus Fonscolombe; France. 

 Eriococcus lagerstramise Kuwana; Japan. 

 Icerya xgyptiaca Douglas; Egypt; adult female forms a white waxy secretion; along the margin ol 



the body are fragile white processes. 

 Icerya palmeri Riley & Howard; Guatemala. 

 Icerya maxima Newstead; Africa. 



Icerya seychellarum Westwood; Natal, Africa. (See Citrus.) 

 Lecaniodiaspis africana Newstead; Egypt. 

 LicMensia lutea Cockerell; Mexico; fig. 

 Monopldebus stebbingi octocaudata Green; India; Ficus carica, F. benghalensis, F. infectoria, F. religiosa, 



F. glomerata; adult male provided with four fleshy tassels on each side of the abdomen. 

 Neolecanium plebeium Cockerell; Mexico. 

 Paralecanium expansum Green; India, Australia; Ficus retusa. 

 Pseudococcus ficus Signoret; France, Calabria. 

 Pseudococcus setosus Hempel; Brazil. 

 Pseudococcus virgatus Cockerell; Africa. 

 PulviTiaria ficus Hempel; Brazil. 

 Pulvinariajacksoni Newstead;' W. Africa. 

 Pulvinaria mammex Maskell; Natal; fig- 

 ■^Sais-ntia nigra t<iictner; Hawaii, Ceylon, West Indies, India; Ficus glomerata. 



