Species Tanyscelis verrucula (Froggatt, 1894)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Opisthoscelis verrucula 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 [338].

  Type data:

   Holotype Napolean Reef, Bathurst, New South Wales.

  Type host:

   Eucalyptus sp. [MYRTACEAE]
• Opisthoscelis mammularis 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].

  Type data:

   Holotype Bendigo, Victoria.

  Type host:

   Eucalyptus sp. [MYRTACEAE]
• Opisthoscelis mammularis 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].

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 [65]

Generic Combinations

• Tanyscelis verrucula (Froggatt, 1894).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, SA, Tas, Vic: Burt Plain (BRT), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

Detailed description of male and female galls, first instars and adults 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 rounded green pea-shaped excrescences, slightly corrugated on the sides. First-stage female flattish, elongate-oval, tapering towards the tip of abdomen, pale salmon pink. Second-stage female brownish-yellow. Adult female bright red, upper side flat, circular, slightly concave covered with white down. Male galls produced upon the leaf in wart-like excrescences, tip is truncate, tinted with pale pink at tips and covered with a whitish bloom. Adult male pale red with white opaline wings, enveloped in sac before emergence (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).

History of changes