Species Cardiaspina fiscella Taylor, 1962

Cardiaspina fiscella on Eucalyptus botryoides, Norfolk Island

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Eucalyptus botryoides leaf with heavy infestation of C. fiscella

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E. botryoides showing extensive leaf damage caused by feeding of C. fiscella, Norfolk Island

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C. fiscella feed on ventral side of leaf of E. botryoides, Norfolk Island

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Regional Maps

• Cardiaspina fiscella Taylor, K.L. 1962. The Australian genera Cardiaspina Crawford and Hyalinaspis Taylor (Homoptera: Psyllidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 10: 307-348 [316].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (dry), Cronulla, NSW.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: lerp-former (associated flora: Eucalyptus botryoides Sm. [MYRTACEAE] Swamp Mahogany), sap-sucker (associated flora: Eucalyptus spp. [MYRTACEAE] Gum Trees).

General References

Campbell, K.G. 1964. Sound production by Psyllidae (Hemiptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 1: 3-4 (sound production)

Campbell, K.G. 1992. The biology and population ecology of two species of Cardiaspina (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) in plague numbers on Eucalyptus grandis in New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 113: 135-150 (biology and population ecology)

Collett, N. 2001. Biology and control of psyllids, and possible causes for defoliation of Eucalyptus camaldulensis Denh. (river red gum) in south-eastern Australia — a review. Australian Forestry 64: 88-95 [89]

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