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Xanthophthalma concinnum Cockerell & Parrott in Cockerell, 1899 (Halimococcidae: Xanthophthalma)

Xanthophthalma concinnum Cockerell & Parrott in Cockerell 1899n: 33. Type data: MEXICO: Veracruz, Coatzocoalcos, on "laurel", 24/04/1898, by Townsend. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Countries: 4

Structure: Scale of female very small, white, with the first skin bright orange and placed longitudinally. The first skin is large for the size of the scale, eye-shaped, with longitudinal bright orange ridge, and the depressed areas on each side of this blackish, the whole looking like a lizard's eye, closed. The second skin is placed beneath the first and is inconspicuous. The scale is convex and presents a succession of transverse crest or ridges so that it seems as if made of a number of discs threaded together. Adult female is nearly circular and transparent after boiling. The end of the abdomen minutely serrulate and ending in six approximately equal rounded processes on the end of each of which is a small bristle. Male on leaf is usually in small pits (Cockerell, 1899n). The exuviae are yellow or brown (Ferris, 1938a).
Biology: Scales on under surface of leaf, scattered all over in numbers, but not massed, distributed at regular intervals, though five or six often bunched together (Cockerell, 1899n).
General Remarks: Description of adult male and female and female scale by Cockerell (1899n). Description and illustration of female by Ferris (1938a).