Species Sphaerococcus casuarinae Maskell, 1892

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• Sphaerococcus casuarinae Maskell, W.M. 1892. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species, and remarks on coccids from New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 24: 1-64 [dated 1891] [39].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NZAC 1 adult ♀, AUSTRALIA: Victoria.

  Type host:

   Allocasuarina verticillata [CASUARINACEAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Hendricks, H. & Kosztarab, M., 1999) [166] (female; world)

GENERAL

Good description and illustration of the adult female given by Williams, D.J. 1985. Australian Mealybugs. London : British Museum (Natural History) 431 pp. and by Hendricks, H. & Kosztarab, M. 1999. Revision of the Tribe Serrolecaniini (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae). Berlin & New York : de Gruyter xiv 213 pp..

BIOLOGY

Occurring amongst the small scales clothing the bases of the long pointed galls formed by Cylindrococcus casuarinae (see Maskell, W.M. 1892. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species, and remarks on coccids from New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 24: 1–64 [dated 1891]).

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