Valid Names Results
Poliaspis exocarpi Maskell, 1892 (Diaspididae: Poliaspis)Nomenclatural History
- Poliaspis exocarpi Maskell 1892: 17. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Victoria, Mordalloc, near Melbourne, on Exocarpus cupressiformis, by Mr. French. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Auckland: New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, New Zealand; London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; Washington: United States National Entomological Collection, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, District of Columbia, USA; accepted valid name Notes: Lectotype: female, designated in Hardy & Henderson, 2011. On an original slide labelled "Poliaspis exocarpi, adult female, 1891, W.M.M.". AUSTRALIA, Mordialloc [-38.00, 145.09], near Melbourne, on Exocarpus cupressiformis, by Mr. French (NZAC). Paralectotypes: 1 female, slide label data as above (NZAC); 1 (BMNH); 12 (USNM). Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 4 | Genera: 8
- Asparagaceae
- Cordyline petiolaris | NormarOkMo2019
- Fabaceae
- Daviesia | Hudson1967
- Daviesia corymbosa | Laing1929
- Daviesia latifolia | Laing1929
- Dillwynia | Frogga1907 Maskel1895b
- Dillwynia retorta | Maskel1896b | (= Dillwynia ericifolia)
- Oxylobium | Frogga1907 Maskel1895b
- Pultenaea juniperina | Hudson1967
- Myrtaceae
- Leptospermum | Frogga1914
- Santalaceae
- Exocarpos cupressiformis | Laing1929 Maskel1892
- Exocarpos strictus | Hudson1967
- Santalum | Frogga1914
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- Australia
- New South Wales | Maskel1895b
- Northern Territory | Frogga1914
- Queensland | NormarOkMo2019
- Tasmania | Hudson1967
- Victoria | Laing1929 Maskel1892
- Western Australia | Frogga1914
Keys
- HardyHe2011: pp.4-6 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Poliaspis (excluding P. intermedia, and P. casuarinicola)]
Remarks
- Systematics: P. exocarpi is the most polyphagous and wide spread species of Poliaspis in Australia. There is also a considerable amount of morphological variation present among samples (e.g. the number of submedial ducts on dorsum of abdominal segment 6). The relatively small size of the median lobes (smaller than or equal in size to second lobes) and the relatively long size of the gland spines (about 5 x the length of medial lobes) are also diagnostic. (Hardy & Henderson, 2011)
- Structure: Female scale white, elongated, usually nearly straight, slightly dilated posteriorly, exuviae yellow. Male scale white, similar to that of female, but faintly carinated, if at all. Adult female brown, darkening with age, elongated, segmented (Maskell, 1892).
- General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Maskell (1892). Redescription by Hardy & Henderson, 2011.
Illustrations
Citations
- Banks1977: chemistry, 53
- Borchs1966: catalog, distribution, host, taxonomy, 134
- DeitzTo1980: distribution, taxonomy, 36
- Fernal1903b: distribution, host, taxonomy, 243
- Frogga1907: distribution, host, 374
- Frogga1914: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 877
- Frogga1915: description, distribution, host, taxonomy, 49-50
- Hall1941: taxonomy, 232
- HardyHe2011: description, distribution, host, illustration, structure, taxonomy, 17-19
- Hudson1967: distribution, host, 92
- Laing1929: distribution, host, taxonomy, 21
- Lidget1898a: taxonomy, 3
- MacGil1921: distribution, host, taxonomy, 355
- Maskel1892: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 17
- Maskel1895b: distribution, host, 52
- Maskel1896b: distribution, host, taxonomy, 391
- MorrisMo1922: taxonomy, 88
- NormarOkMo2019: distribution, host, phylogeny, taxonomy, 29, 70
- Willia2017a: catalog, list of species, 223
