Species Alecanopsis casuarinae (Maskell, 1898)
- Lecanium casuarinae Maskell, W.M. 1898. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species, and discussion of points of interest. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 30[1897]: 219-252 [240].
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder.
GENERAL
Description and illustration of adult female by Froggatt, W.W. 1915. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 26: 411–423, 511–516, 603–615, 754–764, 1055–1064.
BIOLOGY
Found in deserted burrow of a wood moth in the centre of a stem of Casuarina, see Maskell, W.M. 1898. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species, and discussion of points of interest. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 30[1897]: 219–252.