Species Cylindrococcus casuarinae Maskell, 1892

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• Cylindrococcus casuarinae Maskell, W.M. 1892. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species, and remarks on coccids from New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 24: 1-64 [dated 1891] [43].
• Cylindrococcus amplior Maskell, W.M. 1893. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species from Australia, India, Sandwich Islands, Demerara, and South Pacific. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 25: 201-252 [240].
• Crocidocysta froggatti Rübsaamen, E.H. 1894. Über australische Zoocecidien und deren Erzeuger. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39: 199-234 [219].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Article VII. – First supplement to the check-list of the Coccidae. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 5: 389-398 [392] (Crocidocysta froggatti Rübsaamen, 1894)
• Gullan, P.J. 1984. A revision of the gall-forming coccoid genus Cylindrococcus Maskell (Homoptera: Eriococcidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 677-690 [680] (synonymy of Cylindrococcus amplior Maskell, 1893)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

Comprehensive description of Cylindrococcus casuarinae by Gullan, P.J. 1984. A revision of the gall-forming coccoid genus Cylindrococcus Maskell (Homoptera: Eriococcidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 677–690. Cylindrococcus sp. Maskell, W.M. 1892. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species, and remarks on coccids from New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 24: 1–64 [dated 1891] [44] is without species epithet and name not available, see Maskell, W.M. 1893. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species from Australia, India, Sandwich Islands, Demerara, and South Pacific. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 25: 201–252 (240); a brief description of galls on Casuarina sp., taken at Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, which later proved to contain Cylindrococcus amplior, see Froggatt, W.W. 1921. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia. Part III. Science Bulletin, Department of Agriculture, New South Wales 19: 1–43 (=C. casuarinae).

BIOLOGY

Girault, A.A. 1929. Notes on, and descriptions of, chalcid wasps in the South Australian museum. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 309–346 cites specimens of Systolomorpha thyridopterygis Ashmead from the galls of Cylindrococcus casuarinae.

SYSTEMATICS

Slide-mounted adult female with: hind 2 pairs of legs forming large lobes; without conical setae on dorsum; anal lobes absent (see Gullan, P.J. 1984. A revision of the gall-forming coccoid genus Cylindrococcus Maskell (Homoptera: Eriococcidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 677–690).

STRUCTURE

Adult female, in life, almost cylindrical; mid and hind legs represented by large membranous lobes. Mature gall of female composed of 4–6 thickened coalesced bracts tapering to point; imbricating whorls of leaf-like bracts surrounding base and, if present, stalk (see Gullan, P.J. 1984. A revision of the gall-forming coccoid genus Cylindrococcus Maskell (Homoptera: Eriococcidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 677–690).

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