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]

star scale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Family:	Asterolecaniidae
Genus:	Asterolecanium
Species:	A. coffeae
Binomial name
Asterolecanium coffeae Newstead, 1911[1]