Species Lepidosaphes beckii (Newman, 1869)
- Coccus beckii Newman, E. 1869. Coccus beckii, a new British Hemipteron in the family Coccidae. The Entomologist 4: 217-218 [217].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Europe. - Aspidiotus citricola Packard, A.S. 1869. Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists. Salem & London : Naturalist's Book Agency & Trubner & Co. 702 pp. [527].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Europe.Type host:
Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck [RUTACEAE] - Mytilaspis citricola tasmaniae Maskell, W.M. 1897. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species and discussions of points of interest. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 29: 293-331 [303].
- Mytilaspis fulva Targioni Tozzetti, A. 1872. [not seen]. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana [1872]: 131 [131].
- Mytilaspis flavescens Targioni Tozzetti, A. 1876. Mytilaspis flavescens sp. n., on orange and citron, Italy. (?= M. anguinus Boisd.). Annali di Agricoltura. Roma 1876: 1-36 [36].
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.
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
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
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Jun-2024 | COCCOIDEA | 05-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | Dr Vivian Sandoval (ABRS) |
| 05-Jun-2024 | DIASPIDIDAE | 29-May-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 29-Mar-2018 | COCCOIDEA | 05-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 29-Mar-2018 | DIASPIDIDAE | 05-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | |
| 29-Mar-2018 | 05-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 21-Nov-2012 | 05-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 29-Jun-2012 | 05-Jun-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
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