Pollinia pollini (Costa, 1857)

Recorded by Haber & Mifsud (2007) as relatively common on Olea europea . In unpublished correspondence by D.J. Williams of the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London to J.M. Wilkinson of the Government of Malta, dated 4 th February 1970, the presence of this scale insect was confirmed from material collected in Malta at that time, indicating its presence in Malta earlier than the records in Haber & Mifsud (2007).