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Species Ascelis schraderi Froggatt, 1894

  • Ascelis schraderi Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species, Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 209-214 [213].

 

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

 

GENERAL

Detailed description and illustration by Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species, Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 209–214.

STRUCTURE

Female gall irregular, round, pale yellow to reddish brown. Female first instars pale yellow, flat. Adult female pale yellow, irregular, wrinkled. Male first instars are pale yellow to bright crimson (see Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species, Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 209–214).