Species Tanyscelis pisiformis (Froggatt, 1894)

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• Opisthoscelis pisiformis 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 [343].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ASCU ASCT00004858 1 adult ♀, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) ASCU 2 adult ♀, ca 400 first-instar nymphs & embryos [10 slides], 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 [58].

  Type host:

   Eucalyptus melliodora [MYRTACEAE]

Generic Combinations

• Tanyscelis pisiformis (Froggatt, 1894). —
  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 [54]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

Detailed description and illustration of adults, galls and first-instar nymphs 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 green, tinged with reddish-brown, soft globular excrescences covering the leaves, basal orifice on the underside of the leaf, keyhole in shape. First-stage female pale yellow, almost a regular oval, looking very much like a small seed. Second stage salmon-pink in color, oval. Male galls conical, brown, truncate apex, with an irregular oval aperture. Immature males in these cells pale red, swathed in thick white felty sacs (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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