Tests [i.e., external coverings] of adult females aggregated but each test more-or-less globular in form, with tendency to be 6-lobed if isolated; resin dark grey-brown in color with tinges of crimson or orange to reddish-brown with tinges of orange
”- Kondo, T. & P.J. Gullan: (2011) Taxonomic Review of the Genus Tachardiella Cockerell (Hemiptera: Kerriidae), with a Key to Species of Lac Insects Recorded from the New World©