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Species Blepharocosta marmorata (Froggatt, 1900)

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Species Blepharocosta marmorata (Froggatt, 1900)

  • Rhinocola marmorata Froggatt, W.W. 1900. Australian Psyllidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 250-302 (+ 4) [277].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC ♀ (dry), Blue Mtns, NSW.

 

Distribution

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales
    • Queensland
    • South Australia
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: leaf-curl inducer, lerp-former, sap-sucker (associated flora: Eucalyptus stellulata Sieber ex DC. [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus caliginosa Blakely & McKie [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus radiata DC. [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus rossii R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm. [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus macrorhyncha F.Muell. ex Benth. [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus pauciflora Sieber ex Sprengel [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus pulchella Desf. [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus obliqua L'Hér. [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus nitida J.D.Hook. [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus conglomerata Maiden & Blakely [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus diversifolia Bonpl. [MYRTACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

On Eucalyptus stellulata, E. caliginosa, E. robertsonii and E. rossii in NSW, E. macrorhyncha, E. pauciflora and E. rossii in ACT, E. radiata subsp. robertsonii (as E. robertsonii, now a subspecies of E. radiata) in VIC, E. pulchella, E. obliqua and E. nitida in TAS, E. conglomerata in QLD, E. diversifolia and E. obliqua in SA.

 

General References

Taylor, K.L. 1992. Blepharocosta, a new genus of Australian Spondyliaspidinae (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 131-141 [133]

Tuthill, L.D. & Taylor, K.L. 1955. Australian genera of the Family Psyllidae (Hemiptera, Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 3: 227-257 [237] (in Australopsylla)