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Species Eriococcus elegans Fuller, 1897

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

 

GENERAL

Fuller, C. 1899. XIV. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435–473 provides description and illustration.

STRUCTURE

Adult female is reddish-brown and covered by a secretion of several white filaments which are arranged in 3 distinct rows of curling pyramidal tufts, though this secretion cannot be regarded as a true sac (see Fuller, C. 1899. XIV. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435–473).

 

History of changes

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12-Feb-2010 (import)