Live character of Platylecanium nepalense (Takagi )






Females developing on the leaf edge and adjacent to the midrib tending to become asymmetrical. Adult female developed away from midrib or leaf margin perfectly symmetrical. Margin with regular rectangular thick wax filaments. Very well marked marginal area yellowish brown and submarginal area brown. Median area golden yellow with central area orange brown. Transparent waxy layer producing irregularly polygonal 25–27 depressions arranged symmetrically around both the sides of dorsomedial ridge. These depressions having carapace pattern. Black eyes prominent.