* Hemiberlesia palmae (Cockerell) — tropical palm scale

Occurs widely in tropical areas of the Americas (including the Lesser Antilles), Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific, restricted to indoor plantings in cooler temperate regions; polyphagous, feeding on plants belonging to 56 families; it is a pest of many tropical crops including banana, cassava, coconut palm, oil palm, and cocoa.

Collection data. Gros-Islet Parish: Rodney Bay, abundant on Cocos nucifera, 16–24.viii.2013 , and Musa spp. , 20.viii.2013 . Intercepted in the UK (Herefordshire, nursery), on Dypsis lutescens, 15.ix.1993, leg. Hardy.