Valid Names Results

Diaphoraspis compacta Brimblecombe, 1957 (Diaspididae: Diaphoraspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Diaphoraspis compacta Brimblecombe 1957: 281. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Queensland, Forest Hill, on Casuarina cunninghamiana; collected January 1953.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Brisbane: Queensland Museum, Queensland, Australia; accepted valid name Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

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Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

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Remarks

• Structure: Insects scattered on twigs or in axils of leaflet whorls; scale broadly oval to subcircular, 1.5 mm long, fawn to grey; exuviae towards the anterior end, orange to dark yellow (Brimblecombe, 1957).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Brimblecombe (1957).

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