Valid Names Results
Austrolecanium sassafras Gullan & Hodgson, 1998 (Coccidae: Austrolecanium)Nomenclatural History
- Austrolecanium sassafras Gullan & Hodgson 1998: 202. Type data: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Yadboro State Forest, off Western Distributor Rd., on Carters Creek, on leaf of Doryphora sassafras.. Holotype, female and first instar, Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; accepted valid name
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 2 | Genera: 2
- Atherospermataceae
- Doryphora sassafras | GullanHo1998
- Lauraceae
- Endiandra sieberi | LinDiGu2017
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- Australia
- New South Wales | GullanHo1998
- Queensland | LinDiGu2017
Keys
Remarks
- Systematics: Subfamily: Coccinae: Paralecaniini (Choi & Lee, 2019)
- Structure: Live female bright green with shiny dorsum, especially in mature female; young female partially transparent (Gullan & Hodgson, 1998).
- General Remarks: Description and illustration of the adult female given by Gullan & Hodgson (1998). Description and illustration of the third-instar female nymph, second-instar female nymph, second-instar male nymph and first-instar nymph given by Gullan & Hodgson (1998).
Illustrations
Citations
- ChoiLe2019: phylogeny, taxonomy, wax secretion, 402, 404
- GullanCo2007: taxonomy, 413-425
- GullanHo1998: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 197-217
- LinDiGu2017: DNA sequencing, diagnosis, distribution, host, key, taxonomy, 219-223
