Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Phellopsylla opaca (Froggatt, 1900)

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Species Phellopsylla opaca (Froggatt, 1900)

  • Thea opaca Froggatt, W.W. 1900. Australian Psyllidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 250-302 (+ 4) [297].
    Type data:
     
    Syntype(s) ANIC ♂ ♀ (dry, forewing on slide), Canterbury; Croydon, Sydney, NSW; ASCT, Canterbury; Croydon, Sydney, NSW.

 

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, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales
    • South Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: sap-sucker (associated flora: Eucalyptus sp. [MYRTACEAE]), under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Also ?host in SA.

 

General References

Morgan, F.D. 1984. Psylloidea of South Australia. Adelaide, South Australia : Government Printer 136 pp. [116]

Taylor, K.L. 1960. Additional information on the Australian genera of the Family Psyllidae (Hemiptera: Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 8: 383-391 [388]

Tuthill, L.D. & Taylor, K.L. 1955. Australian genera of the Family Psyllidae (Hemiptera, Homoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 3: 227-257 [238] (in Thea)