Species Maconellicoccus australiensis (Green & Lidgett in Green, 1900)

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Regional Maps

• Dactylopius australiensis Green, E.E. & Lidgett, J. in Green, E.E. 1900. Descriptions of new Victorian Coccidae [with notes by Mr Jas. Lidgett]. Victorian Naturalist 17: 9-14 [13].
• Dactylopius candidus Froggatt, W.W. 1916. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects (Coccidae) of Australia. (Part II [in part]). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 27: 425-430, 568-577, 809-816, 883-888 [883].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Williams, D.J. 1985. Australian Mealybugs. London : British Museum (Natural History) 431 pp. [191] (synonymy of Dactylopius candidus Froggatt, 1916)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Williams, D.J., 1996) [621] (female; world); (Williams, D.J., 1985) [191] (female; Australia)

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Brookes, H.M. 1972. Two species of Eurycoccus Ferris on Acacia in Australia (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 11: 129–134 and by Williams, D.J. 1985. Australian Mealybugs. London : British Museum (Natural History) 431 pp..

ECONOMIC AND CONTROL

This species may cause severe damage to terminal shoots of cultivated Acacia spp. (see Brookes, H.M. 1972. Two species of Eurycoccus Ferris on Acacia in Australia (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 11: 129–134) and may kill the trees (see Green, E.E. & Lidgett, J. in Green, E.E. 1900. Descriptions of new Victorian Coccidae [with notes by Mr Jas. Lidgett]. Victorian Naturalist 17: 9–14).

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