Download or read book Coccidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea) written by Christopher John Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of coccidae, one of the ten families of plant-sucking scale insects present in New Zealand. There are 43 indigenous species (restricted to New Zealand), and 14 cosmopolitan species which probably arrived here on imported plant material. No Maori names are known. Colour photographs and drawings illustrate the text.