Species Ascelis attenuata Froggatt, 1894

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• Ascelis attenuata Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species, Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 209-214 [214].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (Notes: According to Gullan (personal communication, March 18, 1998), there is no type material in ASCT Illustr.), AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Thornleigh.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

Brief description and illustration by Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species, Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 209–214.

BIOLOGY

Galls of female swell out on either side of the leaf, with the apical orifice on the upper side (see Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species, Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 209–214).

STRUCTURE

Female galls are very small, reddish brown and flat. Adult female is pale yellow with a long and slender cylindrical anal appendage, truncate at the tip and surrounded at the base by a broad dark brown ring or band (see Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species, Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 209–214).

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