Abstract
The adult female, 2nd-instar female and 1st-instar nymph of a new genus and species of felt scale insect Affeldococcus kathrinae (Eriococcidae) are described from epiphyte mats in the high canopy of northern rata trees. The material was collected from two study sites on the west side of the South Island, New Zealand: Bullock Creek, Punakaiki, and at the start of the Heaphy Track near Karamea. This new species is unlike any others in the New Zealand fauna and apparently shares convergent features with the cactus-feeding Dactylopius species (Dactylopiidae), and possibly some relationship with the Australian genus Phacelococcus Miller. An additional couplet is provided to include this new genus in the key to genera of Eriococcidae present in New Zealand.
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