Kermes concinnulus Cockerell

Coccus concinnulus
Talla concinnula

Hosts: Quercus macrocarpa

Post-reproductive female. reproductive female as: Cockerell (Bogue, 1898) described the post-... 4 mm. long, 4 1/2 broad, 3 1/2 high; very convex, rounded in front, more or less flattened behind; flattened beneath, except a median anterior keel-like prominence. Color lively ochreous. Surface shining, not speckled with black; segmentation very distinct, the sutures marked by bands and spots of dark brown and black, on the hind part by nu-merous pits. A median longitudinal groove, where the segmentation is obsolete, also partly marked out in black. Sutures not deep, nor are the segments strongly gibbous on each side of the median groove.

Remarks. Judging from the type host and the description of the post-reproductive female, one would suspect that this species is identical to K. sylvestris (Ckll. and King).

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