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Tanyscelis grallator Hardy & Gullan, 2010 (Eriococcidae: Tanyscelis)

Nomenclatural History

• Tanyscelis grallator Hardy & Gullan 2010: 40-43. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Queensland, 29 km N of Normanton, on Eucalyptus sp., 10/?/2006,. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; accepted valid name Illustr.

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Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• HardyGu2010: pp.8-10 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to adult females of species of Opisthoscelis and Tanyscelis]

Remarks

• Systematics: Adult females of T. grallator are most similar to those of T. mollicornuta. Both species have fleshy protuberances in place of eyes, however, they are much longer on T. mollicornuta, which has additional protuberances along the dorsal midline plus the submargin of the thorax. Each protuberance on the head ot T. grallator yhas the apex much more differentiated than the similar protuberances of T. mallicornuta and it seems possible that this area is light sensitive. Adult females can also be distinguished by having much longer hind legs, each with a cylindrical coxa (more conical in T. mollicornuta).
• Structure: Female gall on leaf, thorn-like. Gall opening slit-like on adaxial leaf surface. Base broad and globose with circular scar; apex tapering to blunt point. Live adult females of T. grallator have white powdery wax in a band across dorsum of each body segment, with intersegmental areas bare of wax. Body turbinate, head, thorax and anterior abdominal segments with intersegmental boundaries indistinct along margin, intersegmental boundaries incised along posterior abdominal margin; abdomen tapered, about as long asd head + thorax, not extending beyone outstretched femur. (Hardy & Gullan, 2010)
• Biology: The female is small in relation to the size of the gall cavity and eggs are laid into the cavity which can become filled. (Hardy & Gullan, 2010)
• General Remarks: Detailed description, photograph of galls and illustration in Hardy & Gullan, 2010.

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