Icerya samaraia

Adult female oval, 2.9–5.0 mm long, 2.4–4.0 mm wide. Body pale yellow, covered in white to sulphur-yellow flocculent wax tinged with white. Hair-like setae scattered on derm, longest setae in clusters around margin. Simple multilocular pores, each with elongate or bilocular (rarely trilocular) centre and 6–10 outer loculi, scattered across dorsal surface. Similar pores with bilocular centre (appearing reniform) and 4–6 outer loculi scattered on ventromedial head and thorax. Cicatrices oval to round, numbering 3, central cicatrix slightly larger than lateral cicatrices. Anal opening surrounded by robust hair-like setae and typical simple multilocular pores with round centre and 8–12 round outer loculi.

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