• Austrolecanium Gullan, P.J. & Hodgson, C.J. 1998. A new genus of Australian soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccidae) with species on Capparis (Capparaceae) and Doryphora (Monimiaceae) from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 119: 197-217 [197].

  Type species:

   Austrolecanium sassafras Gullan & Hodgson, 1998 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

General References

Gullan, P.J. & Hodgson, C.J. 1998. A new genus of Australian soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccidae) with species on Capparis (Capparaceae) and Doryphora (Monimiaceae) from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 119: 197-217 [197-217] (taxonomy, description)

History of changes

• Lecanium cappari Froggatt, W.W. 1915. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 26: 411-423, 511-516, 603-615, 754-764, 1055-1064 [604].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ASCU ♀, AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Gunnedah,.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. & Hodgson, C.J. 1998. A new genus of Australian soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccidae) with species on Capparis (Capparaceae) and Doryphora (Monimiaceae) from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 119: 197-217 [210].

  Type host:

   Capparis sp. [CAPPARACEAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

Description and illustration of adult female and of the first-instar nymph given by Gullan, P.J. & Hodgson, C.J. 1998. A new genus of Australian soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccidae) with species on Capparis (Capparaceae) and Doryphora (Monimiaceae) from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 119: 197–217.

STRUCTURE

Live female dark chocolate brown with lighter-coloured edges to body when mature, of lighter coloration with yellow body margin when immature (see Froggatt, W.W. 1915. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 26: 411–423, 511–516, 603–615, 754–764, 1055–1064).

History of changes

• Austrolecanium cryptocaryae Lin, Y-P., Ding, Z.Y., Gullan, P.J. & Cook, L.G. 2017. A newly recognised Australian endemic species of Austrolecanium Gullan & Hodgson 1998 (Hemiptera: Coccidae) from Queensland. Zootaxa 4272(1): 119-130 [126, Fig. 4].
  Zoobank Registration Number:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C52B76D7-35E0-4767-92EA-E2978C484BEB

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC LGC00727f2 adult ♀, Mt Glorious, D’Aguilar National Park, Queensland [27.33° S, 152.75° E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC LGC00727f1 adult ♀, Mt Glorious, D’Aguilar National Park, Queensland [27.33° S, 152.75° E]; ANIC LGC00831f1 & LGC00831f2 2 adult ♀, Mt Glorious, D’Aguilar National Park, Queensland [27.33° S, 152.75° E].

  Type host:

   Cryptocarya microneura Meisner, 1864 [LAURACEAE]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes

• Austrolecanium sassafras Gullan, P.J. & Hodgson, C.J. 1998. A new genus of Australian soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccidae) with species on Capparis (Capparaceae) and Doryphora (Monimiaceae) from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 119: 197-217 [202].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Yadboro State Forest, off Western Distributor Rd., on Carters Creek.

  Type host:

   Doryphora sassafras [ATHEROSPERMATACEAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

STRUCTURE

Live female bright green with shiny dorsum, especially in mature female; young female partially transparent (see Gullan, P.J. & Hodgson, C.J. 1998. A new genus of Australian soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccidae) with species on Capparis (Capparaceae) and Doryphora (Monimiaceae) from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 119: 197–217).

GENERAL

Description and illustration of adult female, third-instar female nymph, second-instar female nymph, second-instar male nymph and first-instar nymph by Gullan, P.J. & Hodgson, C.J. 1998. A new genus of Australian soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccidae) with species on Capparis (Capparaceae) and Doryphora (Monimiaceae) from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 119: 197–217.

History of changes