Species Opisthoscelis spinosa Froggatt, 1894
- Opisthoscelis spinosa 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 [341].
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder.
GENERAL
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.
STRUCTURE
Female gall brown, broad and rotund at the base, coming to a sharp thorn-like tip. Chamber walls are thin. First-stage female bright yellow, smooth, shining, elongate. Second stage reddish-yellow, covered on the upper side with curly white hairs. Mature female fixed on the underside to the base of the gall. Male gall is green, rounded excrescences irregularly wrinkled on the summit. Adult male is salmon-pink (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).