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Species Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann, 1802)

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Species Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann, 1802)

Woolly Aphid

  • Aphis lanigerum Hausmann, F. 1802. Beiträge zu den Materialien füreine künstrige Bearbeitung der Gattung der Blattläuse. Illiger's Magazin für Insektenkunde 1: 426-445 [440].
    Type data:
     Status unknown, (not traced), not determined.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Throughout most of world.


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, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), 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), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Malus spp. [ROSACEAE]; Crataegus spp. [ROSACEAE]; Cotoneaster spp. [ROSACEAE]; Sorbus spp. [ROSACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Malus sp. and possibly Ulmus sp. in Australia; elsewhere anholocyclic on Malus over most of world but also found on Cotoneaster, Crataegus and Sorbus.

 

General References

Blackman, R.L. & Eastop, V.F. 1994. Aphids on the World's Trees. An Identification and Information Guide. Wallingford : CAB International viii, 987 pp., [16] [678]

Blackman, R.L. & Eastop, V.F. 2000. Aphids on the World's Crops. An Identification and Information Guide. Chichester : Wiley x, 466 pp. [271]

Eastop, V.F. 1966. A taxonomic study of Australian Aphidoidea (Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 399-592 [537]

Fisk, J.H., Carver, M. & Eastop, V.F. 1992. An electrophoretic study of Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann) on apple and Eriosoma sp. from galls on elm in Canberra, Australia (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31: 231-232

Remaudière, G. & Remaudière, M. 1997. Catalogue des Aphididae du monde. Paris : INRA 473 + [3] pp. [233] (list four species-group synonyms)

 

Common Name References

Naumann, I.D. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Common Insect Names. Melbourne : CSIRO pp. 1-200 [147] (Woolly Aphid)