Species Opisthoscelis mammularis Froggatt, 1894

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• Opisthoscelis mammularis Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 335-348 [344].

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

Most detailed description and illustration by Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 335–348.

STRUCTURE

Female gall red to reddish-brown, tinged with green, broad at base. Upper portion of gall solid, walls thin on the sides, chamber small and irregular, basal orifice on underside of leaf, very irregular, on a reddish warty pustule. Immature female dull yellow, covered with long curly white hairs. Adult female rounded, wrinkled, greyish-brown, tapering towards the anal tip. Hind legs pale yellow. Male galls green, irregular, and form in clusters of 3 to 4 (see Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 335–348).

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