Icerya nudata, Maskell, 1896

Unruh, Corinne M. & Gullan, Penny J., 2008, Identification guide to species in the scale insect tribe Iceryini (Coccoidea: Monophlebidae), Zootaxa 1803 (1), pp. 1-106 : 70

Icerya nudata group

We include two marsupium-forming species in this group: I. nudata and I. samaraia . These are the only two marsupium-forming species that have open-centre pores present on the derm. They can be separated by the shape and size of the open-centre pores: I. samaraia has large pores with tightly-spaced outer loculi while the open-centre pores of I. nudata are smaller, have fewer widely-spaced outer loculi and have a small cleft.