Species Tanyscelis maculata (Froggatt, 1894)

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• Opisthoscelis maculata 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 [345].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ASCU ASCT00004880 1 adult ♀, Bendigo, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) ASCU 1 adult ♀, same as the lectotype.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hardy, N.B. & Gullan, P.J. 2010. Australian gall-inducing scale insects on Eucalyptus: revision of Opisthoscelis Schrader (Coccoidea, Eriococcidae) and descriptions of a new genus and nine new species. ZooKeys 58: 1–74 [45].

  Type host:

   Eucalyptus leucoxylon [MYRTACEAE]
• Opisthoscelis recurva Froggatt, W.W. 1929. Notes on gall-making coccids with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 375-378 [377].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC, Warrah, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) ASCU ASCT00004859 & ASCT00004860 1 adult ♀ and 2 dry galls of ,f> on base of leaves (female ex one of these galls slide-mounted), Warrah near Willow Tree, northeastern NSW; BMNH 1 adult ♀ and 2 slides of first-instar nymphs ex dry gall on leaf, plus other associated dry galls, Warrah, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hardy, N.B. & Gullan, P.J. 2010. Australian gall-inducing scale insects on Eucalyptus: revision of Opisthoscelis Schrader (Coccoidea, Eriococcidae) and descriptions of a new genus and nine new species. ZooKeys 58: 1–74 [45].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hardy, N.B. & Gullan, P.J. 2010. Australian gall-inducing scale insects on Eucalyptus: revision of Opisthoscelis Schrader (Coccoidea, Eriococcidae) and descriptions of a new genus and nine new species. ZooKeys 58: 1–74 [43]

Generic Combinations

• Tanyscelis maculata (Froggatt, 1894).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

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 galls brown, pyriform. Adult female ochreous-yellow, shining and glassy, almost oval. Male gall reddish-brown to black, tapering toward apex (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).

BIOLOGY

Females on slender twigs and leaf-stalks, sometimes singly and other times close together and in rows. Often growing in such numbers that the leaf is aborted (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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