Species Ascelis melaleucae Fuller, 1897

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• Ascelis melaleucae Fuller, C. 1897. Some Coccidae of Western Australia. Journal of Western Australia Bureau of Agriculture 4: 1344-1346 [1346].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (Notes: Whereabouts of type material unknown (Gullan, personal communication, June 10, 1996)), AUSTRALIA: Swan River.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Howell, J.O. & Kosztarab, M., 1972) [27] (female; world); (Williams, M.L. & Kosztarab, M., 1970) [14] (first-instar nymph; world)

GENERAL

Description and illustration of adult female by Howell, J.O. & Kosztarab, M. 1972. Morphology and systematics of the adult females of the genus Lecanodiaspis (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Lecanodiaspididae). Research Division Bulletin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 70: 1–248. Description and illustration of first-instar nymph by Williams, M.L. & Kosztarab, M. 1970. A morphological and systematic study of the first instar nymphs of the genus Lecanodiaspis (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Lecanodiaspididae). Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Research Division 52: 1–96.

STRUCTURE

Adult yellow sub-globose, body unsegmented. Gall is wider than high, same color as bark of host, apex conical. Galls have two chambers, lower is where the female sits and the upper contains several male pupae in white mealy cocoons (see Fuller, C. 1899. XIV. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435–473).

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