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Chrysomphalus rubribullatus (Froggatt, 1914) (Diaspididae: Chrysomphalus)

Nomenclatural History

• Aspidiotus perniciosus eucalypti Fuller 1897b: 1344. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia, on Tasmanian gum, Eucalyptus globulus.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; junior homonym (discovered by Ferris1941e, 43). Notes: Primary homonym of Aspidiotus eucalypti Maskell,1889, based on the princxiple of coordinatrion in ICZN article 46.1.
• Aspidiotus (Diaspidiotus) perniciosus ?eucalypti Fuller, 1897; Cockerell 1899a: 396. change of combination
• Aonidiella eucalypti (Fuller, 1897); Marlatt 1906: 55. change of combination and rank
• Aspidiotus (Aspidiella) rubribullata Froggatt 1914: 317. Type data: AUSTRALIA: West Australia, near Perth, on Eucalyptus sp., and New South Wales, Trangie, on Eucalyptus sp.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; junior synonym replacing a junior homonym (discovered by Brimbl1958, ). Replacement name for Aspidiotus perniciosus eucalypti Fuller, 1897b Notes: Accordfing to ICZN 23.3.5. "The Principle of Priority requires that if a name in use for a taxon is found to be unavailable or invalid it must be replaced by the next oldest available name from among its synonyms." Illustr.
• Aspidiotus (Aspidiella) rubribullata; Froggatt, 1914; Froggatt 1915: 22. subsequent use Notes: Described again as n. sp.
• Aspidiotus (Aonidiella) miniatae Green 1916e: 53. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Northern Australia, on twigs of Eucalyptus miniata.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: London: The Natural History Museum, England, UK; junior synonym (discovered by Brimbl1958, 70). Illustr.
• Neosignoretia miniatae (Green, 1916); MacGillivray 1921: 424. change of combination
• Diaspidiotus eucalypti (Fuller, 1897); Ferris 1941e: 43. change of combination
• Aspidiotus miniatae Green, 1916; Ferris 1941e: 43. change of combination Notes: "Indeterminate. not Aspidiotus"
• Quadraspidiotus rubribullatus (Froggatt, 1914); Ferris 1941e: 48. change of combination requiring emendation of specific epithet for agreement in gender
• Chrysomphalus miniatae (Green, 1916); Lindinger 1943: 291. change of combination
• Chrysomphalus rubribullatus (Froggatt, 1914); Brimblecombe 1958: 69. change of combination

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• SmithPEvDo2012: pp.6-May ( Adult (F) ) [Key to the species of the genus Chrysomphalus]

Remarks

• Structure: Female scale circular, diameter up to 1/20 inch; convex; chocolate brown; exuviae large, forming a regular boss in the centre, deep orange red, sometimes clouded with white secretion (Froggatt, 1914). Illustration of scale cover by Froggatt (1914). Insects numerous on small branches; scale convex and mostly circular, varying in size to 1.25 mm diameter, dark brown in colour with a fawn margin; first and second exuviae central, with a pale grey flaky covering weathering to expose the dark orange colour of the exuviae (Brimblecombe, 1958).
• General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by Froggatt (1914) and by Brimblecombe (1958).

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