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Species Cardiaspina albitextura Taylor, 1962

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Species Cardiaspina albitextura Taylor, 1962

  • Cardiaspina albitextura Taylor, K.L. 1962. The Australian genera Cardiaspina Crawford and Hyalinaspis Taylor (Homoptera: Psyllidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 10: 307-348 [332].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC ♀ (dry), Capital Hill, ACT.

 

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, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: lerp-former, sap-sucker (associated flora: Eucalyptus blakelyi Maiden [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. [MYRTACEAE]).

 

General References

Clark, L.R. & Dallwitz, M.J. 1975. The life-system of Cardiaspina albitextura (Psyllidae), 1950–74. Australian Journal of Zoology 23: 523-561 [523] (biology)

Gilby, A.R., McKellar, J.W. & Beaton, C.D. 1976. The structure of lerps: carbohydrate, lipid, and protein components. Journal of Insect Physiology 22: 689-696 [689] (lerp analysis)

Maryanska-Nadachowska, A., Taylor, G.S. & Kuznetsova, V.A. 2001. Meiotic karyotypes and structure of testes in males of 17 species of Psyllidae: Spondyliaspidinae (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 40: 349-356 [351] (karyotype and testis)

Taylor, G.S. 1992. The structure of the eggs of some Australian Psylloidea (Hemiptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31: 109-117 [109] (egg)

Taylor, G.S. 1997. Effect of plant compounds on the population dynamics of the Lerp insect, Cardiaspina albitextura Taylor (Psylloidea: Spondyliaspididae) on eucalypts. pp. 37-57 in Raman, A. (ed.). Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Feeding Insects in Natural and Man-Made Environments. New Delhi & Leiden : International Scientific Publications & Backhuys Publishers [37] (biology)