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SOME NEW SPECIES OF COCCIDÆ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. D. Tinsley
Affiliation:
Mesilla Park, N. Mex.

Extract

Dactylopius Quaintancii, n. sp.

Adult ♀ Length, 2 mm. Width, 1.5 mm. Shape, ellipsoidal, much flattened. Colour, dark grayish-brown, the body is so covered with white secretion that its true colour only shows on the ventral surface, the colour of the dorsum appearing quite white. The white secretion mealy, projecting slightly on the lateral margins, but not forming well-marked filaments; posteriorly it is produced into two very short, but well-defined, caudal filaments; on the dorsum it is slightly raised into a longitudinal ridge.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1898

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