Valid Names Results

Coelostomidia pilosa (Maskell, 1891) (Coelostomidiidae: Coelostomidia)

Nomenclatural History

• Coelostoma pilosum Maskell 1891: 29. Type data: NEW ZEALAND: Reefton district, on various trees, Podocarpus totara and Fagus spp., in forests.. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Morale1991,38). Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Coelostomidia pilosa (Maskell, 1891); Cockerell 1902q: 258. change of combination
• Coelostomidia pilosam (Maskell, 1891); Morrison & Morrison 1922: 10. misspelling of species epithet

Common Names

• shaggy giant scale Morale1991

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 14 | Genera: 18

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HodgsoFo2006: pp.191-192 ( Adult (M) ) [Males of Coelostomidiidae]
• Morris1928: pp.117 ( Adult (F) Adult (M) Immature (F) Immature (M) ) [Species of Coelostomidia]

Remarks

• Structure: Colour illustration of the general appearance of the adult female and adult male by Green (1922). Adult female dark-red in colour. At first naked; then with a thin covering of white meal, which gradually becomes thicker and more solid, until it assumes the appearance of a hard, granular shell, looking like a coating of lime; at gestation this increases to a snow-white mass of closely-felted cotton covering the insect and the eggs. Length variable, some specimens 0.5 inch (Maskell, 1891). Adult male darkish-red or brown in colour, but covered with hairs and with a good deal of whitish meal on the body and legs; length about 0.1 inch (Maskell, 1892).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female and female nymph by Morrison & Morrison (1923) and by Morales (1991). Description and illustration of adult male by Hodgson & Foldi (2006).

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