Species Lecanodiaspis eucalypti (Maskell, 1893)
- Prosopophora eucalypti Maskell, W.M. 1893. Further coccid notes: with descriptions of new species from Australia, India, Sandwich Islands, Demerara, and South Pacific. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 25: 201-252 [226].
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder.
ID Keys
(Howell, J.O. & Kosztarab, M., 1972) [29] (female; world); (Williams, M.L. & Kosztarab, M., 1970) [14] (first-instar nymph; world)
GENERAL
Description and illustration of adult female by Williams, M.L. & Kosztarab, M. 1970. A morphological and systematic study of the first instar nymphs of the genus Lecanodiaspis (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Lecanodiaspididae). Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Research Division 52: 1–96 and by Howell, J.O. & Kosztarab, M. 1972. Morphology and systematics of the adult females of the genus Lecanodiaspis (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Lecanodiaspididae). Research Division Bulletin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 70: 1–248. Description and illustration of first-instar nymph by Williams, M.L. & Kosztarab, M. 1970. A morphological and systematic study of the first instar nymphs of the genus Lecanodiaspis (Homoptera: Coccoidea: Lecanodiaspididae). Bulletin of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Research Division 52: 1–96.
General References
Cockerell, T.D.A. 1896. A check list of the Coccidae. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 4: 318-339 [327] (Lecaniodiaspis eucalypti: misspelling of genus name)
Fernald, M.E. 1903. A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 88: 1-360 [55] (Lecaniodiaspis eucalypti: misspelling of genus name)