Live character of Coccus hesperidum (Linnaeus)






Adult yellow with greenish tinge, covered with minute red-brown specks, the specks sometimes merge to form the transverse bars in the median area of abdomen, submarginal areas with dotted lines emerging from centre to margin. The older females become darker ochreous with broad brown path in the median area. Dried specimens wrinkled and straw-coloured. Eyes minute, black, marginal.