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Australian Faunal Directory

Species Cardiaspina densitexta Taylor, 1962

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Species Cardiaspina densitexta Taylor, 1962

  • Cardiaspina densitexta Taylor, K.L. 1962. The Australian genera Cardiaspina Crawford and Hyalinaspis Taylor (Homoptera: Psyllidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 10: 307-348 [334].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC ♀ (dry), Tintinara, SA.

 

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

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • South Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: lerp-former, sap-sucker (associated flora: Eucalyptus fasciculosa F.Muell. [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus diversifolia Bonpl. [MYRTACEAE]; Eucalyptus odorata Behr [MYRTACEAE]).

 

General References

Taylor, G.S. 1992. The structure of the eggs of some Australian Psylloidea (Hemiptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31: 109-117 [110] (egg)

White, T.C.R. 1970. Some aspects of the life history, host selection, dispersal, and oviposition of adult Cardiaspina densitexta (Homoptera: Psyllidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 18: 105-117 (biology)

White, T.C.R. 1970. The nymphal stage of Cardiaspina densitexta (Homoptera: Psyllidae) on leaves of Eucalyptus fasciculosa. Australian Journal of Zoology 18: 273-293 (biology)

White, T.C.R. 1972. The production of amylose in the faeces of psyllid larvae with special reference to the lerps of Cardiaspina densitexta. Journal of Insect Physiology 18: 2359-2367 [2364] (lerp analysis)