Subspecies Cerococcus paradoxus paradoxus (Maskell, 1889)

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Subspecies Cerococcus paradoxus paradoxus (Maskell, 1889)

Eriococcus paradoxus Maskell, W.M. 1889. On some new South Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 11: 101-111 [dated 1888] [104] [no valid record found for this taxon].
Cerococcus auranticus 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 [1055].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

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, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales
- South Australia
- Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Lambdin, P.L., 1987) [102] (female; Cerococcus species in the Australian region); (Hamon, A.B. & Kosztarab, M., 1979) [17] (first instar; Cerococcus first instars); (Lambdin, P.L. & Kosztarab, M., 1977) [46] (female; species of Cerococcus)

STRUCTURE

Test of adult female is made of a thick coat of reddish orange wax with a funnel shaped apical tube, spots on its surface and four spine like tufts of pale yellow. Body form is oval. Male tests scattered amongst the female tests, which are pale, bright yellow mottled with some red. Adult female is dark reddish brown and broadly oval. 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.

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 detailed description and illustration of the first instar.

SYSTEMATICS

Adult female resembles Eriococcus hoheriae (Maskell, 1899). 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 state that this species is close to Cerococcus punctiferus.