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Species Madarococcus osculus Hardy & Gullan, 2008

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Species Madarococcus osculus Hardy & Gullan, 2008

  • Madarococcus osculus Hardy, N.B. & Gullan, P.J. in Hardy, N.B., Gullan, P.J., Henderson, R.C. & Cook, L.G. 2008. Relationships among felt scale insects (Hemiptera : Coccoidea : Eriococcidae) of southern beech, Nothofagus (Nothofagaceae), with the first descriptions of Australian species of the Nothofagus-feeding genus Madarococcus Hoy. Invertebrate Systematics 22(3): 365-405 [395].
    Type data:
     Holotype ANIC adult ♀ (ex underside of leaf of N. moorei), NSW, New England National Park.
    Paratype(s) BPBM 7 adult ♀, 1 pharate adult female, 1 adult ♂, same data as for holotype.

 

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW: New England Tablelands (NET), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder (associated flora: Nothofagus moorei [Nothofagaceae] Antarctic Beech (also in other material from Tas. one adult ex N. gunnii and one adult from N. cunninghamii)).