Gigantococcus alboluteus (Cockerell, 1898)

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 : 49

Gigantococcus alboluteus group

Three species, Gi. alboluteus , Gi. pattersoni and Gi. schoutedeni , closely resemble one another. The ventral surface of the adult females of all three species has compound multilocular pores with an 8 to 12 lobed centre and 6–8 elongate reniform outer loculi. Gigantococcus schoutedeni can be separated from the other two by the absence of large compound pores, each with a bilocular to trilocular centre and 8–12 reniform outer loculi. Gigantococcus alboluteus and Gi. pattersoni differ by the density of these compound pores: Gi. alboluteus has 3–6 of these pores in marginal clusters on the head and thorax but Gi. pattersoni has only one or two. Also, pore density in the ovisac band of Gi. alboluteus is less than that of Gi. pattersoni .