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Kermes boguei Cockerell, 1897 (Kermesidae: Kermes)

Kermes boguei Cockerell 1897e: 94-95. Type data: UNITED STATES: Oklahoma, 10 miles from Stillwater, on the shore of a small pond, on Quercus alba, 26/08/1896, by E.E. Bogue. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Blacksburg: Department of Entomology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, USA; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: USNM has four boxes of dry material and also one slide with matching locality data, but is not labeled as types.
Coccus boguei (Cockerell, 1897); Cockerell 1929b: 150. change of combination
Talla boguei (Cockerell, 1897); Lindinger 1933a: 143. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Structure: Adult female globular, 6.25 mm long, 5.75 mm long, 5.0 mm high. Not gibbous. General color dark; with 5 suffused, more or less broken bands of dull scarlet, the areas between which are whitish but largely occupied by broken black lines or stripes and there are also transverse blotchy bands of black, much interrupted. The general effect produced is an irregular blotching of scarlet, black and dull white (Ferris, 1955a).
General Remarks: Best descriptions by Cockerell (1897e) and Ferris (1955a).