Poliaspis

Adult female scale insects of the genus Poliaspis. Body outline variable: linear, turbinate, pyriform, fusiform, or oval; prepygidial abdominal margin weakly incised between segments to strongly lobed. Slide-mounted adult female length 724–1659 μm. Body color not specified in available evidence. Gland spines variable in length, from about as long as median lobes to more than 5 times length of median lobes; typically one gland spine on margin of each pygidial segment. Microducts scattered on dorsum of head, anterior to anterior spiracles, and mesad of gland tubercles on thorax and abdomen; few or absent on median abdomen. More than 5 clusters of multilocular pores may be present on abdomen, with extra pores on submargin of abdominal segments 6 and 5. Described African species with extra groups of perivulvar pores have marginal macroducts with elongate ductules. Scale cover round to elongate-oval, white, flocculent wax sometimes present; exuvia terminal.

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