Species Eriococcus spiniger Maskell, 1896
- Eriococcus spiniger Maskell, W.M. 1896. Further coccid notes, with descriptions of new species and discussions of questions of interest. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 380-411 [dated 1895] [398].
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder.
GENERAL
Most detailed description and illustration by Hoy, J.M. 1959. Species of Eriococcus Targ. (Homoptera, Coccoidea) associated with the genus Leptospermum Forst. in southeastern Australia and Tasmania. New Zealand Journal of Science 2: 1–34.
SYSTEMATICS
Slide-mounted adult female with: distinct marginal row of enlarged setae (see Gullan, P.J. & Vranjic, J.A. 1991. The taxonomy of the gum tree scales Eriococcus confusus Maskell and E. coriaceus Maskell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae). General and Applied Entomology 23: 21–40). According to Hoy, J.M. 1959. Species of Eriococcus Targ. (Homoptera, Coccoidea) associated with the genus Leptospermum Forst. in southeastern Australia and Tasmania. New Zealand Journal of Science 2: 1–34 slide-mounted adult female with: enlarged setae cylindrical, sides straight, apices truncate, marginal setae conspicuously larger than other setae on dorsum, 4 lateral setae on margin of each abdominal segment; anal lobes cylindrical, heavily sclerotized, with medial teeth.
STRUCTURE
Sac of female is white, or with a very faint yellowish tinge, cylindrical, closely felted. Sac of male is similar and smaller. Adult female brown or yellowish brown. First-instar nymphs are yellowish-brown, flattish, elliptical, active (see Maskell, W.M. 1896. Further coccid notes, with descriptions of new species and discussions of questions of interest. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 380–411 [dated 1895]).