Cardiaspina tenuitela
Yellow box lace lerp at Garran, ACT
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| Cardiaspina tenuitela | RogerF | 10 Oct 2018 | |
| Cardiaspina tenuitela | KimPullen | 9 Oct 2018 | |
| Cardiaspina albitextura | RogerF | 12 Sep 2018 | |
| Lasiopsylla rotundipennis | ruthkerruish | 12 Sep 2018 |
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Is this yellowbox lerp?
All the leaves which could be observed on 6-8 trees in poor health, due to drought, fires were affected.
8 comments
13 Sep 2018
Are you sure the trees are yellow box and not Blakely's red Gum. These lerp are not Lasiopsylla.
14 Sep 2018
2 people thought they were yellow box. I have added images of the trees and the bark. Hopefully you can make a positive identification without the flowers. We do have Blakely's red gum in HGW.
15 Sep 2018
According to David Hollis's book 'Australian Psylloidea' (ABRS, 2004), 8 spp of psyllids including Cardiaspina tenuitela and Lasiopsylla rorundipennis are recorded from Euc melliodora. I think these look more like the Lasiopsylla.
16 Sep 2018
Lasiopsylla lerps are dense and woolly looking. In fact infested host trees look dripping like snow. There are some pictures in my leaflets on insect pests of farm trees produced many years ago. I don't have access them at the moment as I am in the Daintree. I still think the lerps pictured are white lace lerps in the genus Cardiaspina. If they are on E . melliodora then they are C tenuitela, as suggested, that is also pictured in the leaflets. As the pictures show, the lerps are more rectangular (tenuitella) than oval (albitextura). Close-ups of lerps are always helpful for identification.
10 Oct 2018
Keep arguing - all young growth ( young trees and suckers from the base of fire burnt trees) are severely affected to the extent that HGW members have become worried about it. We have a program to remove the suckers (not because of the lerp) and young trees will outgrow the problem. Maybe I should take more photos.
11 Oct 2018
Does it have an accepted common name? It confusing for it to have the same accepted common name as Lasiopsylla rotundipennis.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.100433-35.339242
- Altitude 624.9m
- Maps Hughes Garran Woodland Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Garran, ACT
Sighting information
- 1,001 - 10,000 Abundance
- 10 Sep 2018 03:28 PM Recorded on
- ruthkerruish Recorded by
- Less than 5mm Animal size
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- Insects Psyllids, lerps, aphids & whiteflies (Hemiptera, several families) ruthkerruish Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Cardiaspina tenuitela
Species information
- Cardiaspina tenuitela Scientific name
- Yellow box lace lerp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 624.94m Recorded at altitude
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