Cardiaspina fiscella, the brown basket lerp[citation needed] or brown lace lerp,[1] is a jumping plant louse species in the genus Cardiaspina originally found in Australia.[2] It spread to New Zealand where it was found in 1996 near the Auckland airport.[3] It feeds on eucalyptus, especially swamp mahogany, and is found in Victoria, eastern New South Wales, and southeastern Queensland, as well as the capital territory (ACT) around Canberra and on Norfolk Island.[4][5][6] Cardiaspina fiscella has five nymphal instars, and as the instars moult they add a layer to their outside covering (casing), known as the "lerp".[4]
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| Species: | C. fiscella
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References
edit- ^ "Cardiaspina fiscella, the brown lace lerp psyllid". New Zealand Farm Forestry Association. Archived from the original on 10 February 2013.
- ^ Taylor, Kenneth L. (1962). "The Australian genera Cardiaspina Crawford and Hyalinaspis Taylor (Homoptera: Psyllidae)". Australian Journal of Zoology. 10 (2): 307–348, page 316. doi:10.1071/ZO9620307.
- ^ "Cardiaspina fiscella in New Zealand 1997". New Zealand Farm Forestry Association. Archived from the original on 10 February 2013. citing Appleton, Clive (1996). "Brown lace lerp, Cardiaspina fiscella, recorded in New Zealand". Forest Health News (53 (June 1996)). Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute).
- ^ a b Campbell, K. G. (1992). "The biology and population ecology of two species of Cardiaspina (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) in plague numbers on Eucalyptus grandis in New South Wales". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 113 (2): 135–150.
- ^ Collett, N. (2001). "Biology and control of psyllids, and the possible causes for defoliation of Eucalyptus camaldulensis Denh. (river red gum) in south-eastern Australia — a review" (PDF). Australian Forestry. 64 (2): 88–95, page 89. doi:10.1080/00049158.2001.10676170. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 January 2014.
- ^ "Species Cardiaspina fiscella Taylor, 1962". Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Commonwealth of Australia. 7 March 2013. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
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