Species Ourococcus eucalypti Fuller, 1897

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• Ourococcus eucalypti Fuller, C. 1897. Some Coccidae of Western Australia. Journal of Western Australia Bureau of Agriculture 4: 1344-1346 [1346].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (Whereabouts of type material unknown (Gullan, personal communication, June 10, 1996).), AUSTRALIA: Western Australia.

  Type host:

   Eucalyptus [MYRTACEAE]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

SYSTEMATICS

Slide-mounted adult female with: enlarged setae absent; posterior abdomen sclerotized, segments fused, almost pygidium like; without extra marginal lobes; anal lobes not protruding but sclerotization forming rounded opening for entrance of anal ring invagination; antennae 2 or 3-segmented; legs absent, hind pair represented by conical swelling containing numerous translucent pores; spiracles with associated multilocular pores; macrotubular ducts apparently absent; quinquelocular pores forming broad bands from abdomen apex forward along body margin to base of antennae; anal ring pores in triangular cluster approximately 4 times diameter of opening of anal ring invagination, perhaps as many as 1,000 anal ring pores (see Miller, F. 1999. Take control of scale infestations. American Nurseryman 190(10): 14, personal observation).

STRUCTURE

Adult female surrounded by black waxy secretion and occupying a deep-seated cavity in the bark. Abdomen tapering slightly. Body subglobular, apex truncate (see Fuller, C. 1899. XIV. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435–473).

GENERAL

Most detailed description by Fuller, C. 1899. XIV. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435–473.

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