Valid Names Results

Cylindrococcus casuarinae Maskell, 1892 (Eriococcidae: Cylindrococcus)

Cylindrococcus casuarinae Maskell 1892: 43. Type data: AUSTRALIA: 1891, by W.M. Maskell. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Gullan1984a,). Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; accepted valid name Illustr.
Cylindrococcus sp. Maskell 1892: 44. unavailable name that is placed (discovered by Maskel1893b, 240). Notes: A brief description of galls on Casuarina sp., taken at Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, which later proved to contain Cylindrococcus amplior (Froggatt, 1921b) (=C. casuarinae). Illustr.
Cylindrococcus amplior Maskell 1893b: 240. Type data: AUSTRALIA: 1892, by W.M. Maskell. Lectotype, female, by subsequent designation (Gullan1984a,). Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; junior synonym (discovered by Gullan1984a, 680). Notes: A paralectotype is in the USNM
Crocidocysta froggatti Rübsaamen 1894: 219-220. junior synonym (discovered by Cocker1899a, 392). Notes: Types of Rübsaamen in the ZMHB apparently were destroyed during World War II (Gullan, 1984).

Families: 1 | Genera: 2

Allocasuarina corniculata | Gullan1984a
Allocasuarina huegeliana | Gullan1984a
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Gullan1984a
Allocasuarina torulosa | Hoy1963 | This record could not be confirmed by Gullan (1984a)
Allocasuarina verticillata | Hoy1963 | This species was previously called Casuarina stricta, and could not be confirmed as a host by Gullan (1984b). Type material was collected on Casuarina quadrivalvis which now is a junior synonym of A. verticillata.
Casuarina | Hoy1963
Casuarina glauca | Hoy1963 | Casuarina torulosa was listed as the host of the type, but is not included in the list of hosts by Gullan (1984b). It is a junior synonym of Casuarina glauca.

Countries: 1

Systematics: Slide-mounted adult female with: hind 2 pairs of legs forming large lobes; without conical setae on dorsum; anal lobes absent (Gullan, 1984a).
Structure: Adult female, in life, almost cylindrical; mid and hind legs represented by large membranous lobes. Mature gall of female composed of 4-6 thickened coalesced bracts tapering to point; imbricating whorls of leaf-like bracts surrounding base and, if present, stalk (Gullan, 1984a).
Biology: Girault (1929) cites specimens of Systolomorpha thyridopterygis Ashmead from the galls of Cylindrococcus casuarinae.
General Remarks: Comprehensive description of Cylindrococcus casuarinae by Gullan (1984a).