Tranfaglia, A. 1974a Studi sugli Homoptera Coccoidea. III. Un nuovo coccino (Coccus aegaeus De Lotto) sugli agrumi in Italia (Notizie preliminari).. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri'. Portici 31: 141-144.

Notes: In this third part of a series on scale insects in Italy [cf. RAE/A63, 921], a species first described from the Greek island of Rhodes, Coccus aegaeus De Lotto [cf. 63, 491], is recorded for the first time from Italy, where it was found in 1974 on Citrus in several localities near Naples. Young females were present from mid-April and matured in early June. In the laboratory, eggs hatched a few hours after deposition, and the young nymphs after a period under the parent scale settled along the midribs of the leaves and on young twigs and moulted to the second instar in late July; the second-instar nymphs overwintered. C. aegaeus was found in nearly all the Citrus plantations inspected but not in large numbers except in neglected or untreated ones. Considerable predation by the Coccinellids Chilocorus bipustulatus (L.) and Exochomus quadripustulatus (L.) was observed in the field, and a parasite of the genus Coccophagus was found among the Coccids brought into the laboratory. A description of the male is provided, as well as distinguishing characters between C. hesperidum and aegaeus, its biology, host and distribution.