Asterolecanium coffeae

{{Short description|Species of true bug}}

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| name = star scale

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| genus = Asterolecanium

| species = coffeae

| authority = Newstead, 1911{{Cite journal|author=Newstead, R.|year=1911|title=On a collection of Coccidae and Aleurodidae, chiefly African, in the collection of the Berlin Zoological Museum|journal=Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin|volume=5|issue=2|pages=155–174|doi=10.1002/mmnz.4830050201|doi-access=free}}

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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.{{Cite book|author=Ben-Dov, Yair|year=2006|chapter=Asterolecaniidae, Pit Scales|title=A Systematic Catalogue of Eight Scale Insect Families (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the World: Aclerdidae, Asterolecaniidae, Beesoniidae, Carayonemidae, Conchaspididae, Dactylopiidae, Kerriidae and Lecanodiaspididae|location=Amsterdam|publisher=Elsevier|pages=33–162, pages 51 and 52|isbn=978-0-444-52836-0}} In addition to coffee plants it feeds on jacaranda and Photinia japonica.{{Cite journal|author=James, H. C.|year=1933|title=The biology and control of Asterolecanium coffeae, Newst., the fringed scale of coffee, in Kenya Colony|journal=Bulletin of Entomological Research|volume=24|issue=3|pages=421–427|doi=10.1017/s0007485300031746}}