Species Pseudozaphanera niger (Maskell, 1896)

Habitus puparia of Zaphanera niger

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Regional Maps

• Aleurodes niger Maskell, W.M. 1896. Contributions towards a monograph of the Aleurodidae, a family of the Hemiptera - Homoptera. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 411-449 [437].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC puparium slide, Vic, Melbourne.

  Type host:

   Acacia pycnantha Benth. [MIMOSACEAE]

Generic Combinations

• Pseudozaphanera niger (Maskell, 1896).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: sap-feeder (associated flora: Acacia pycnantha Benth. [FABACEAE] Golden Wattle; Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd. [FABACEAE] Sydney Golden Wattle; Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. [FABACEAE] Blackwood).

Nymphs: sap-feeder (associated flora: Acacia pycnantha Benth. [FABACEAE] Golden Wattle; Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd. [FABACEAE] Sydney Golden Wattle; Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. [FABACEAE] Blackwood).

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