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Species Myzolecanium endoeucalyptus (Qin & Gullan, 1989)

  • Cryptostigma endoeucalyptus Qin, T.K. & Gullan, P.J. 1989. Cryptostigma Ferris: a coccoid genus with a strikingly disjunct distribution (Homoptera: Coccidae). Systematic Entomology 14: 221-232 [226].

 

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

 

GENERAL

Description and illustration of adult female by Qin, T.K. & Gullan, P.J. 1989. Cryptostigma Ferris: a coccoid genus with a strikingly disjunct distribution (Homoptera: Coccidae). Systematic Entomology 14: 221–232.

BIOLOGY

Lives in galleries of ants of Crematogaster sp. and Iridomyrmex sp., within trunks and branches of the trees (see Qin, T.K. & Gullan, P.J. 1989. Cryptostigma Ferris: a coccoid genus with a strikingly disjunct distribution (Homoptera: Coccidae). Systematic Entomology 14: 221–232.