Species Madarococcus meander Hardy & Gullan, 2008

Museums

Regional Maps

• Madarococcus meander Hardy, N.B. & Gullan, P.J. in Hardy, N.B., Gullan, P.J., Henderson, R.C. & Cook, L.G. 2008. Relationships among felt scale insects (Hemiptera : Coccoidea : Eriococcidae) of southern beech, Nothofagus (Nothofagaceae), with the first descriptions of Australian species of the Nothofagus-feeding genus Madarococcus Hoy. Invertebrate Systematics 22(3): 365-405 [385].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC adult ♀ (ex pit galls on under side of leaf of Nothofagus cunninghamii), Tas, Meander Forest Reserve Mother Cummings Creek.
  Paratype(s) numerous (ex pit or leaf pocket galls on leaves on Nothofagus cunninghamii; in ANIC, USNM, BPBM), Tasmania, Victoria.

  Type host:

   Nothofagus cunninghamii [Nothofagaceae]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Nothofagus cunninghamii (Hook.) Oerst. [NOTHOFAGACEAE] Myrtle Beech).

History of changes