KERMES BOGUEI COCKERELL

Coccus boguei
Talia boguei

Host: Quercus alba

Post-reproductive female. Cockerell (1897b) described the post-reproductive female as: Globose, slightly oval; length about 6 1/2, breadth 5 3/4, height 5 mm., varying a little in these proportions. Surface without gibosities, not very shiny; with a lens one sees that it presents innumerable dull rugosities with intervening shiny lines. The general color is dark; there are five suffused, more or less broken bands of dull scarlet; the areas between these are whitish, but largely occupied by broken black lines or stripes. There are also transverse blotchy bands of black, much interrupted. The general effect produced is an irregular blotching of scarlet, black, and dull white; the black may predominate and make a dark scale in which the scarlet and white are not so readily noticed.

Distr: OK

- Stephen Bullington, Michael Kosztarab: (1985) Studies on the morphology and systematics of scale insects. No. 12^©