Species Unplaced froggatti Maskell, 1894
- Sphaerococcus froggatti Maskell, W.M. 1894. Remarks on certain genera of Coccidae. The Entomologist 27: 44-46, 93-95, 166-168 [94].
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder.
GENERAL
Original description and illustration by Maskell, W.M. 1894. Further coccid notes with descriptions of several new species and discussion of various points of interest. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 26: 65–105. This species was moved into the Eriococcidae by Miller, D.R., Gullan, P.J. & Williams, D.J. 1998. Family placement of species previously included in the scale insect genus Sphaerococcus Maskell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 100: 286–305.
SYSTEMATICS
Slide-mounted adult female with: enlarged setae absent; hair-like body setae scattered over both surfaces; numerous quinquelocular pores on both surfaces; legs absent; antennae 1- or 2-segmented (see Miller, F. 1999. Take control of scale infestations. American Nurseryman 190(10): 14 personal observation).
STRUCTURE
Females form brown or reddish yellow galls, attached at the base to the twigs of host. Galls are cup shaped in form, but covered with curling cylindrical processes, often much longer than the basal gall, so that the whole gall is enveloped in a feathery mass of these filaments. Adult female develops on the gall cavity, is dull red in color and is dusted with white meal giving it a bluish grey tint. Female is subglobular in form (see Froggatt, W.W. 1921. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia. Part III. Science Bulletin, Department of Agriculture, New South Wales 19: 1–43).