Kermes perryi King

Talla perryi

Hosts: Quercus ilicifolia

Post-reproductive female. King (1900b) described the post-reproductive female as: .very globular, small, 3 mm. in diameter. Superficially [sic] examined, its color appears to be dark gray, dull, not shining, very near the color of the bark upon the twig. Viewed with a hand lens the segmentation is nearly obsolete and indicated by fine black lines, upon a dark yellowish brown surface. Parallel with the segments are several depressed dots, which are darker than the surface. The entire surface of the scale is covered more or less with a dirty white wax; under a low power of the microscope this appears to be small white granular crystals.

Distr: MA

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