Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Cerococcus bryoides (Maskell, 1894)

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Species Cerococcus bryoides (Maskell, 1894)

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales
  • Cook Islands
  • Fiji

Oriental Region

  • China (People's Republic)
  • India

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

 

ID Keys

(Wang, T.C., 2001) [514] (key to Chinese species of Cerococcus); (Tang, F.T. & Hao, J., 1995) [235] (female; as Phenacobryum bryoides; species of Phenacobryum); (Wang, T.C., 1994) [248] (female); (Lambdin, P.L., 1987) [102] (female; Cerococcus species of the Australian region); (Hamon, A.B. & Kosztarab, M., 1979) [16] (first instar; Cerococcus first instars); (Lambdin, P.L. & Kosztarab, M., 1977) [44] (female; species of Cerococcus).

 

GENERAL

Detailed description and illustration by Lambdin, P.L. & Kosztarab, M. 1977. Morphology and systematics of the adult females of the genus Cerococcus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Cerococcidae). Research Division Bulletin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 128: 1–252. Hamon, A.B. & Kosztarab, M. 1979. Morphology and systematics of the first instars of the genus Cerococcus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Cerococcidae). Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Research Division 146: 1–122 provide a description and illustration of the first instar.

SYSTEMATICS

This species is close to C. theydoni and C. parahybensis (see Hamon, A.B. & Kosztarab, M. 1979. Morphology and systematics of the first instars of the genus Cerococcus (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Cerococcidae). Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Research Division 146: 1–122).

STRUCTURE

Test of adult female formed of a dull yellowish secretion, but is so thickly covered with secretionary matter which forms grey tufted filaments that it gives it a greyish brown tint. Test is irregularly oval, convex, and has a large anal opening. Male test is pale yellow, semi-transparent sometimes having a greyish tint. Adult female is dull yellow, broadly oval with elongated anal segment. 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

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
21-Nov-2012 21-Nov-2012 MODIFIED
29-Jun-2012 29-Jun-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)