Icerya pilosa, Green, 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 pilosa group

We place two species in this group: Icerya pilosa and I. kumari . We were unable to examine material of I. kumari . Based on Rao’s description, illustration and photographs, we believe it is probably closely related to Icerya pilosa and that it might even be a third-instar nymph of that species (refer to the taxonomic notes on I. kumari for further discussion). On both species, the derm around the open-centre pores becomes very sclerotized and the loculi present in the outer rim look similar. Icerya pilosa forms an ovisac band but Rao believed I. kumari formed neither an ovisac band nor a marsupium.