Species Tanyscelis spinosa (Froggatt, 1894)

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• Opisthoscelis spinosa 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 [341].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ASCT 1 adult ♀, AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Sydney and Flemington.

  Type host:

   Eucalyptus siderophloia [MYRTACEAE]
• Opisthoscelis fibularis 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 [344].

Generic Combinations

• Tanyscelis spinosa (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 [59]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

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 gall brown, broad and rotund at the base, coming to a sharp thorn-like tip. Chamber walls are thin. First-stage female bright yellow, smooth, shining, elongate. Second stage reddish-yellow, covered on the upper side with curly white hairs. Mature female fixed on the underside to the base of the gall. Male gall is green, rounded excrescences irregularly wrinkled on the summit. Adult male is salmon-pink (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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