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Species Lepidosaphes beckii (Newman, 1869)

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Species Lepidosaphes beckii (Newman, 1869)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

QUEENSLAND: Biboohra; Mackay; Nambour; Thursday Is.; SOUTH AUSTRALIA: Adelaide; VICTORIA: Melbourne; Europe; South Pacific; West Indies.


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, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Mauritius

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales
    • Queensland: NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
    • South Australia: S Gulfs
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Federated States of Micronesia
  • Fiji
  • Hawaii
  • New Zealand
  • Papua New Guinea

Nearctic Region

  • United States of America

Neotropical Region

  • Cuba

Oriental Region

  • Sri Lanka
  • Taiwan

Palaearctic Region

  • Japan
  • Portugal

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Banksia integrifolia L.f. [PROTEACEAE] Coast Banksia; Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck [RUTACEAE] Orange; Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack [RUTACEAE] Orange Jasmine; Citrus reticulata Blanco [RUTACEAE] mandarin; Citrus sp. [RUTACEAE]; Croton sp. [EUPHORBIACEAE]; Pomaderris apetala Labill. [RHAMNACEAE]).

 

General References

Beardsley, J.W. 1966. Insects of Micronesia. Homoptera: Coccoidea. Insects of Micronesia 6: 377-562 [535-536] (as Lepidosaphes beckii)

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Notes on Australian Coccidae. 1. – The Australian species of Mytilaspis. 2. – A new Pulvinaria. Victorian Naturalist 16: 13-16 [14] (as Mytilaspis tasmaniae)

Comstock, J.H. 1883. Second report on scale insects, including a monograph of the sub-family Diaspidinae of the family Coccidae and a list, with notes of the other species of scale insects found in North America. Cornell University Agricultural Experimental Station, Department of Entomology Report 2: 47-142 [117] (as Mytilaspis citricola; and Mytilaspis flavescens [123-124])

Doane, R.W. & Hadden, E. 1909. Coccidae from the Society Islands. The Canadian Entomologist 41: 296-300 [299] (as Lepidosaphes beckii)

Froggatt, W.W. 1914. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 25: 599-610 [608] (as Mytilaspis citricola; description; illustration)

Fuller, C. 1897. Some Coccidae of Western Australia. Journal of Western Australia Bureau of Agriculture 4: 1344-1346 [1344] (as Mytilaspis fulva)

Fuller, C. 1899. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435-473 [468-469] (as Mytilaspis fulva)

Green, E.E. 1896. Catalogue of Coccidae collected in Ceylon. Indian Museum Notes 4: 2-10 [4] (as Mytilaspis citricola)

Houser, J.S. 1918. The Coccidae of Cuba. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 11: 157-172 [169-170] (as Lepidosaphes beckii)

Leonardi, G. 1898. Monografia del genre Mytilaspis. Rivista di Patologia Vegetale 6: 45-78 [46] (as Mytilaspis citricola, Mytilaspis fulva [47], Mytilaspis flavescens [47], and Mytilaspis citricola var. tasmaniae [46])

Maskell, W.M. 1890. Further notes on Coccidae, with descriptions of new species from Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 22: 133-156 [dated 1889] [135] (as Mytilaspis citricola)

Maskell, W.M. 1895. Further coccid notes: with description of new species from New Zealand, Australia, Sandwich Islands, and elsewhere, and remarks upon many species already reported. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 27: 36-75 [48-49] (as Mytilaspis citricola)

Maskell, W.M. 1895. Synoptical list of Coccidae reported from Australasia and the Pacific Islands up to December 1894. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 27: 1-35 [6] (as Mytilaspis citricola)

Newstead, R. 1911. Observations on African scale insects (Coccidae). (No. 3). Bulletin of Entomological Research 2: 85-104 [88] (as Mytilaspis citricola)

Takagi, S. 1970. Diaspididae of Taiwan based on material collected in connection with the Japan-U.S. Co-operative Science Programme, 1965 (Homoptera: Coccoidea) Part 2. Insecta Matsumurana 33: 1-146 [8-9] (as Lepidosaphes beckii; description)

Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1988. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Part 1. The armoured scales (Diaspididae). London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 290 pp. [146-148] (as Lepidosaphes beckii)

 

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)
14-Dec-2022 DIASPIDIDAE 29-May-2023 MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018 COCCOIDEA 29-May-2023 MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018 DIASPIDIDAE 29-May-2023 MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018 29-May-2023 MODIFIED
21-Nov-2012 29-May-2023 MODIFIED
29-Jun-2012 29-May-2023 MODIFIED
29-May-2023 MODIFIED