Species Opisthoscelis maculata Froggatt, 1894
- Opisthoscelis maculata Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 335-348 [345].
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder.
GENERAL
Most detailed description and illustration by Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 335–348.
BIOLOGY
Females on slender twigs and leaf-stalks, sometimes singly and other times close together and in rows. Often growing in such numbers that the leaf is aborted (see Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 335–348).
STRUCTURE
Female galls brown, pyriform. Adult female ochreous-yellow, shining and glassy, almost oval. Male gall reddish-brown to black, tapering toward apex (see Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 335–348).