Icerya menoni Rao, 1951

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 : 86

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1803.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5126320
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/304C87CD-FF93-FF8B-FF2B-B136FD90C04C
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Icerya menoni Rao
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Icerya menoni Rao View in CoL

Icerya menoni Rao, 1951a: 60 View in CoL .

Diagnosis (adapted from Rao, 1951a). Adult female covered in fluffy, woollen, white wax and glassy filaments. Posterior end with two waxy pencils projecting from anal area. Ovisac not fluted, consisting of fluffy wax secretion beneath abdomen, projecting 3 to 4 mm from posterior end of body, but partly concealed by many long, glassy filaments projecting from dorsal surface and margin. Slide-mounted adult female oval. Antennae 11 segmented. Legs slender, as for genus, claw digitules acute. Open-centre pores present, forming longitudinal bands on dorsum, in clusters around margin, dense on dorsal head. Ovisac band made of simple multilocular pores of two types: larger pores with bilocular to trilocular centre and 6–8 outer loculi and smaller pores with bilocular centre and 6–7 outer loculi. Simple multilocular pores with bilocular centre and 4 outer loculi on venter. Vulva as for genus. Cicatrix circular. Abdominal spiracles in 3 pairs. Anal tube as for genus; anal opening surrounded by long, hair-like setae.

Type data. INDIA: Cochin State [= Kerala], Maradu , ex Cocos nucifera , 7.xii.1943 .

Type material. Holotype: ad ♀ ( INPC) . Paratype: ad ♀ ( INPC) .

Taxonomic notes. We were unable to examine material of this species. Refer to I. seychellarum group for a discussion of similar species.