COCCIDAE FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA US 



Lepidosaphes gloveri (Pack.). 



Previous records. A widely distributed tropical and subtropical 

 species infesting citrus fruits. 



Lower California records. From orange at San Bartolo. 



Lepidosaphes mimosarum (Ckll.). 



Fig. 36 

 1903. Mytilaspis mimosarum Ckll., Entomologist, 36:45. 



Previous records. From Mimosa sp., Zapotlan, Mexico. 

 Lower California records. On Mimosa sp., at San Pedro. 



Fig. 36. Lepidosaphes mimosarum (Ckll.) : pygidium of adult. 



Habit. Occurring for the most part beneath the surface of the 

 ground but occasionally on the twigs or even on the leaves. Scale of 

 female of the type common to the genus, about 2 mm. long, gray or 

 brown, rather slender, frequently curved; exuviae naked. Scale of male 

 in form resembling that of the female but lighter in color. 



Morphological characteristics. Adult female about 1 mm. long, 

 derm membranous throughout except for the pygidium. Cephalothorax 

 not greatly elongate, not divided by intersegmental constriction and not 

 sharply separated from the abdomen. Lateral margins of the abdominal 

 segments projecting but little, each with two or three small gland spines 

 and several small ducts. Dorsum of abdomen without ducts. 



