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Pulvinaria delottoi Gill, 1979 (Coccidae: Pulvinaria)

Pulvinaria delottoi Gill 1979: 241. Type data: U.S.A.: California, Alameda County, Oakland, on Mesembryanthemum sp.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name

Families: 2 | Genera: 6

Countries: 3

Systematics: Pulvinaria delottoi can easily be confused in life with Pulvinariella (= Pulvinaria) mesembryanthemi (Vallot), a species also known as iceplant scale that has become. The two species may be distinguished using the descriptions and keys provided by Gill (1988). (Salisbury, et al., 2011)
Structure: See colour photograph in Gill (1988). Adult females are circular to oval; moderately convex and 2-5mm long, young adults are bright green but change significantly with maturity and oviposition. At first they develop a reddish margin and a thin dorsal covering of white powdery wax before becoming a uniform reddish-brown with transverse wrinkles. They produce an irregular white ovisac beneath the body. (Salisbury, et al., 2011)
General Remarks: Good description of the adult female given by Gill (1979, 1988).