Species Ripersiella cobelopus (Williams, 1987)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhizoecus cobelopus Williams, D.J. 1987. Rhizoecus (Insecta: Homoptera: Pseudococcidae) from Australia with a description of a new species damaging garden plants in Victoria. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 48: 191-194 [192].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T-8908 ♀ (on roots of various garden plants; collected 22 May 1985), Victoria, Nunawading, 20km E.of Melbourne.
  Paratype(s) NMV T-8909 - T-8913 5 ♀, same data as Holotype; NMV T-8914-T-8917 4 ♀ (collected 1 Jan 1985), same data as Holotype; BMNH no register number given 4 ♀ (collected 1 Jan 1985), same data as Holotype.

Generic Combinations

• Ripersiella cobelopus (Williams, 1987). —
  Kozar, F., Konczné Benedicty, Z. 2003. Description of four new species from Australian, Austro-oriental, New Zealand and South Pacific regions (Homoptera, Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae, Rhizoecinae), with a review, and a key to the species Ripersiella. Bollettino di Zoologia Agraria e di Bachicoltura. Milano 35(3): 225-239 [236]

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Williams, D.J., 1987) [192] (female; Australia)

BIOLOGY

Occurring on the roots of its host plants.

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of the adult female female given by Williams, D.J. 1987. Rhizoecus (Insecta: Homoptera: Pseudococcidae) from Australia with a description of a new species damaging garden plants in Victoria. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 48: 191–194.

ECONOMIC AND CONTROL

Recorded as damaging the root systems of its host plants (see Williams, D.J. 1987. Rhizoecus (Insecta: Homoptera: Pseudococcidae) from Australia with a description of a new species damaging garden plants in Victoria. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 48: 191–194).

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