Species Lepidosaphes grisea (Maskell, 1890)

• Mytilaspis grisea 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] [133-134] [illustration].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NZAC, NSW, Australia.

  Type host:

   Eucalyptus sp. [MYRTACEAE] (and Acacia sp.)

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Eucalyptus sp. [MYRTACEAE] Gum Tree; Acacia sp. [FABACEAE] Wattle).

General References

Borchsenius, N.S. 1966. [A Catalogue of the Armoured Scale Insects (Diaspidoidea) of the World]. Moscow & Leningrad : Nauka 449 pp. [in Russian] [49] (as Lepidosaphes grisea)

Froggatt, W.W. 1914. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 25: 677-684 [678] (as Mytilaspis grisea; description)

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

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

Leonardi, G. 1898. Monografia del genre Mytilaspis. Rivista di Patologia Vegetale 6: 45-78 [46] (as Mytilaspis grisea)

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 [7] (as Mytilaspis grisea)

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