Cinara (Cupressobium) tujafilina (Del Guercio, 1909)

Fig. 118

Diagnosis

Apterae 1.5–3.2 mm, reddish-brown with a whitish dorsal wax coating, leaving two longitudinal stripes and parts of the area around siphunculi bare and shining. Mostly anholocyclic (Blackman & Eastop 1994) on various Cupressaceae . Tibiae dark only at apices. On foliated and bare branches, wounds, roots. Attended by ants.

Recorded hosts

Cupressaceae: Chamaecyparis lawsoniana; Cupressus sp.; Juniperus, chinensis, communis, procumbens, virginiana, spp.; Thuja occidentalis; Thujopsis dolabrata .

Recorded attendant ants

Formicinae: Lasius niger .

Distribution

Almost cosmopolitan. Not yet recorded from North Europe.

F5 (F2 F6) Siphunculi conical, 1.5–2 times as long as wide............ Brachycaudus van der Goot, 1913