Live character of Ceroplastes cirripediformis (Cockerell )






Adult female with wet wax a dirty yellowish white (Fig. 1N), with dorsal heptagonal plate, seven lateral plates, dark brown nuclei, cephalic filaments trifurcate, anterolateral and posterolateral filaments simple, posterolateral filaments and caudal filaments bifurcate, white stigmatic bands near both pairs of spiracles, anterior bands directed dorsally