Living adult female brown soft scales are pale yellowish green to yellowish brown, often mottled with brown spots.
Older females are brown.
The shape tends to vary according to position on the host plant. Males look like tiny two-winged wasps or flies and are rare. Crawlers and young nymphs are yellow and almost flat in profile. Parasitized nymphs are dark brown to black and convex. Crawlers have well-developed legs and antennae and are quite active until settling.