笔者于1984年4月中旬,在我省锦屏县春蕾林场杉木林中采得一批蚧壳虫标本,经制片鉴定为日本蜡蚧Ceroplastes japonicus Green虽然该虫在我国河北、河南、山东、山西、陕西、甘肃、湖南、湖北、浙江、江苏、福建、江西、云南、广东、广西、四川、贵州均有分布,寄主多如木莲、木兰、白兰、含笑、小柏、梨、苹果、樱桃、桃、李、杏、梅、山茶、 In mid-April, 1984, a series of scale insects were collected from the Chinese fir forest in Chunlei Forest Farm, Jinping County of our province. The samples were identified as Ceroplastes japonicus Green. Although the insects were found in Hebei, Henan and Shandong Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou. Most of the hosts are distributed as Magnolia, Magnolia, Prynne, Cherry, peach, plum, apricot, plum, camellia,