TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page ................... ........... ......... Division of Plant Industry Technical Council & Administrative S Table of Contents ..................................... List of Figures ..................................... List of Maps ........................................... List of Color Plates ................................... Foreword................... .................... Acknowledgments .............. ........................ Introduction ........... ........................ The Family Coccidae ............................... General Biology .................................... Economic Importance ................. ............. Associated Insects ................................ Natural Enem ies ................................ Classification ................ ....... ............... General Morphology of Adult Females ................. Key to Genera of Coccidae in Southeastern United States .. Page .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . i taff ...................... .. ii . . . . . . . . . . . . iii . . . . . . . . . . . . v i . . . . . . . . . . . . v ii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v iii .. . . . . . . . .. . . ... ix S. . . . .. . . . . . .. . x ............................. . . . . . . . . . . .. I . . 1 S. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1 16 Descriptions Genus Ceroplastes Gray .......................... Key to the species of Ceroplastes ................... Ceroplastes brachyurus Cockerell ................ Ceroplastes ceriferus (Fabricius) ................. Ceroplastes cirripediformis Comstock ............. Ceroplastes dugesii Lichtenstein ................. Ceroplastesfloridensis Comstock ................. Ceroplastes nakaharai Gimpel ................... Ceroplastes rubens Maskell ..................... Ceroplastes sinensis Del Guercio ................. Ceroplastes utilis Cockerell ..................... Genus Coccus Linnaeus .......................... Key to the species of Coccus ....................... Coccus acutissimus (Green) ..................... Coccus capparidis (Green) ...................... Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus .................... Coccus longulus (Douglas) ............... ...... Coccus pseudohesperidum (Cockerell) ............ Coccus viridis (Green) ......................... Genus Eucalymnatus Cockerell .................... Eucalymnatus tessellatus Signoret ................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 8 . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . 4 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6 .. .. . .. . .. .. . . . .. 4 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 0 . . . . . . . . 50