Icerya pulchra (Leonardi)

Unruh, Corinne M. & Gullan, Penny J., 2008, Identification guide to species in the scale insect tribe Iceryini (Coccoidea: Monophlebidae), Zootaxa 1803 (1), pp. 1-106 : 93

Icerya pulchra (Leonardi)

Palaeococcus pulcher Leonardi, 1907: 1 .

Icerya pulcher (Leonardi) ; Vayssière (1926: 319) [not Morrison (1928: 227), as in Ben-Dov (2005: 206)].

Icerya pulchra (Leonardi) ; Lindinger (1932: 197).

Diagnosis (based on Morrison, 1921 and Rao, 1951b). Adult female 6–7 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Body brown to dark brown, covered in white waxy secretion that appears in groups on dorsal surface. Waxy tassels project from margin, longest at posterior end and tapering to cover dorsal side of fluffy white ovisac. Slidemounted adult female oval, broadest across abdomen. Antennae 9 to 11 segmented. Legs slender, as for tribe. Hair-like setae scattered across all segments, longest setae forming clusters around abdominal margins. Opencentre pores absent. Simple multilocular pores, each with trilocular (rarely bilocular) centre and 6–8 outer loculi, scattered on dorsal surface. Simple multilocular pores, each with 6-lobed centre and 5–7 outer loculi, scattered near margin. Ovisac band made of simple multilocular pores of two types: (i) larger pores with quadrilocular or quinquelocular centre, and (ii) smaller pores with trilocular centre and 3 outer loculi. Simple multilocular pores on venter, each pore with bilocular centre and 4 outer loculi. Cicatrices round to elliptical, numbering 3, central cicatrix largest. Abdominal spiracles in 3 pairs. Anal tube and anal opening as for genus; anal opening surrounded by long, hair-like setae.

Type data. INDONESIA: Java, ex Ilex leaves .

Type material. Syntypes: ♀, ♂, 1 st -instar nymph ( IFSP) .

Taxonomic notes. We were unable to examine type material of this species. Refer to I. pulchra group for a discussion of similar species.