Miscellaneous insects: the cottony cushion-scale (Icerya purchasi Maskell), order Hemiptera; family Coccidae.

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Miscellaneous insects: the cottony cushion-scale (Icerya purchasi Maskell), order Hemiptera; family Coccidae.

By Charles Valentine Riley
Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture; report of the entomologist, 1886: 466-492, 1886
Cite: 1469574 with citation markup [cite:1469574]

Riley C.V., 1886. Miscellaneous insects: the cottony cushion-scale (Icerya purchasi Maskell), order Hemiptera; family Coccidae. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture: report of the entomologist, 1886: 466-492

Contributed by Randy Hardy on 20 November, 2017 - 12:59pm

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