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Species Cylindrococcus casuarinae Maskell, 1892

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


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).

 

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)
05-Jun-2024 COCCOIDEA 04-Sep-2023 MODIFIED Dr Vivian Sandoval (ABRS)
21-Nov-2012 01-May-2014 MODIFIED
29-Jun-2012 29-Jun-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)