Species Unplaced tormentosus Fuller, 1899

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• Sphaerococcus tormentosus Fuller, C. 1899. XIV. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435-473 [450].

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  Syntype(s) BMNH 1 adult ♀ on slide + dry material in envelope, Western Australia; USNM 1 adult ♂ + 6 first-instar nymphs (Brain Collection), Swan River, WA.

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

GENERAL

This species was placed in the Eriococcidae by Afifi, S. & Kosztarab, M. 1967. Studies on the morphology and taxonomy of the males of Antonina and one related genus (Homoptera: Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae). Research Division Bulletin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 15: 1–43, but no generic assignment has been made for its inclusion. The most detailed description of the female and first instar is by Fuller, C. 1899. XIV. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435–473; Afifi, S. & Kosztarab, M. 1967. Studies on the morphology and taxonomy of the males of Antonina and one related genus (Homoptera: Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae). Research Division Bulletin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 15: 1–43 presented a detailed description of the adult male.

STRUCTURE

According to Fuller, C. 1899. XIV. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435–473, the adult females usually congregate together and secrete quantities of white wooly wax. The tests are subglobular with a central, longitudinal series of filaments. The first instar is yellow, elongate with 2 conspicuous anal tubercles. The adult male is brownish yellow and elongate.

General References

Girault, A.A. 1940. Three new Australian encyrtid genera. Ohio Journal of Science 40: 149-150 [Date published 31/05/1940] [149] (Sphaerococcus tomentosus: misspelling of species name)

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