star scale | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
Family: | Asterolecaniidae |
Genus: | Asterolecanium |
Species: | A. coffeae
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Binomial name | |
Asterolecanium coffeae |
Asterolecanium coffeae or yellow fringed scale is a pit scale insect pest on coffee plants, especially Coffea arabica, throughout tropical Africa, including Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.[2] In addition to coffee plants it feeds on jacaranda and Photinia japonica.[3]