Crypticerya rosae (Riley & Howard, 1890)

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 : 25

Crypticerya rosae group

Three species of Crypticerya , C. abrahami , C. pimentae and C. rosae , differ from all other species because the adult females form neither an ovisac nor a marsupium. Adult females typically do not have elaborate waxy secretion on the dorsal surface and the derm is often very dark in colour and becomes very convex and sclerotized with age. These species are morphologically identical, but have a wide geographic range and are not genetically identical ( Unruh & Gullan, 2008).