Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Cerataphis orchidearum (Westwood, 1879)

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Species Cerataphis orchidearum (Westwood, 1879)

Orchid Aphid

  • Asterolecanium orchidearum Westwood, J.O. 1879. The fimbriated scale. Gardeners Chronicle (London) 2 12: 796.
    Type data:
     Status unknown, Eire, Dublin orchid house?.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Also Pacific.


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

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Dendrobium ?gracicaule F.Muell. [ORCHIDACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Dendrobium gracilicorne (assumed to be error for D. gracicaule) (from Eastop, V.F. 1966. A taxonomic study of Australian Aphidoidea (Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 399–592: 533) in Australia; elsewhere various orchids.

 

General References

Blackman, R.L. & Eastop, V.F. 2000. Aphids on the World's Crops. An Identification and Information Guide. Chichester : Wiley x, 466 pp. [255]

Eastop, V.F. 1966. A taxonomic study of Australian Aphidoidea (Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 399-592 [533]

Noordam, D. 1991. Hormaphidinae from Java (Homoptera: Aphididae). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 270: 1-525 [116]

 

Common Name References

Naumann, I.D. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Common Insect Names. Melbourne : CSIRO pp. 1-200 [146] (Orchid Aphid)