Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Mycopsylla fici (Tryon, 1895)

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Species Mycopsylla fici (Tryon, 1895)

  • Psylla fici Tryon, H. 1895. Three undescribed insects whose food-plant is the Moreton Bay Fig and the injuries which they occasion. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Queensland 1: 60-63 [60].
    Type data:
     Syntype(s) QM eggs, adults (?sexes) (dry), Brisbane, QLD.

 

Distribution

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, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Lord Howe Island
    • New South Wales
    • Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: sap-sucker (associated flora: Ficus macrophylla Desf. ex Pers. [MORACEAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae under solidified plant exudate.

 

General References

Froggatt, W.W. 1901. Australian Psyllidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26: 242-298 (+ 3) [259] (in Mycopsylla)

Glowacka, E. & Maryanska-Nadachowska, A. 1998. Male reproductive system and karyotype of Mycopsylla fici (Tryon) (Homoptera, Psylloidea). Folia Biologica. Kraków 46: 17-21

Hollis, D. & Broomfield, P.S. 1989. Ficus-feeding psyllids (Homoptera), with special reference to the Homotomidae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 58: 131-183 [149]

Taylor, K.L. 1976. Records of Psylla dodonaeae Tuthill (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) in Australia, with notes on its biology. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15: 347 [347] (biological note)