* Pinnaspis buxi (Bouché) — screw pine scale

Cosmopolitan, restricted to indoor plantings in cooler temperate regions; polyphagous, feeding on plants belonging to 46 families; a pest of palms and screw pines.

Collection data. Intercepted in the UK (Herefordshire, nursery), on Dypsis lutescens, 15.ix.1993, leg. Hardy.