Species Austrolecanium sassafras Gullan & Hodgson, 1998

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• 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.

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