Hemiberlesia palmae (Cockerell)

Diagnosis. Adult female cover round to oval, white; shed skins subcentral, dark. Body round with three pairs of lobes; median lobes well developed, separated by a space equal to the width of one of them; second and third lobes unsclerotized; fringed or branched plates present anterior of lobe III; space between the base of median lobes and posterior of anus shorter than diameter of anus; pores near the spiracles absent; perivulvar pores present in 4 groups.