Cerealces Kirby, 1882: 30-31. Type species: Cerealces scutellata Kirby, by monotypy.
Citations
Ashmead 1898 [key: 229]; Konow 1900 [key: 68]; Konow 1905a [description, distribution (range), key: 32, 35]; Rohwer 1911a [type information: 76]; Rohwer 1911c [systematics – classification: 226]; Morice 1919 [key, key to species, revision/review: 255, 287]; Benson 1938c [systematics – classification: 379]; Benson 1939 [description of adult, illustration of adult, key: 325, 326, 329-330]; Smith 1978 [catalogue/checklist: 136]; Pagliano & Scaramozzino 1990 [catalogue/checklist: 58]; Abe & Smith 1991 [systematics – classification: 18].
Cerealces scutellata Kirby
Cerealces scutellata Kirby, 1882: 31. Type locality: South Australia. Holotype male, by monotypy and original designation. Type depository: BMNH. Described: male. Illust.
Cerealces cyathiformis Kirby, 1893: 42-43. Type locality: Australia: Melbourne, Victoria. Syntype male. Type depository: BMNH. Described: male. Synonymy by Benson, 1939: 329.
Cerealces scutellata: Forsius, 1927: 299-300. Subsequent description.
Citations
Froggatt 1890c [catalogue/checklist: 695]; Dalla Torre 1894 [catalogue/checklist: 349]; Froggatt 1901 [distribution (range): 9]; Konow 1905a [distribution (range): 35]; Morice 1919 [distribution (range), key, type information: 287]; Forsius 1927 [description of female, distribution record, taxonomy: 285, 299-300]; Forsius 1929a [distribution record: 82]; Benson 1939 [description of female, distribution (range), illustration of adult, illustration of lance/lancet, taxonomy: 325, 329-330, 336]; Maxwell 1955 [distribution record, host plant, illustration of immature stages, internal anatomy (larva): 26, 27, 28]; Morrow et al. 1976 [behavioural defence, distribution record, ecology, feeding, host plant, natural enemies: 193-205]; Smith 1978 [catalogue/checklist, host plant: 136]; Schmidt 2006 [catalogue/checklist, host plant, synonymy: 629]; Schmidt et al. 2006 [host plant: 183].
Distribution
Australasian: Australia (Capital Territory [Smith 1978, Schmidt 2006], New South Wales [Forsius 1927, Benson 1939, Morrow et al. 1976, Smith 1978, Schmidt 2006], South Australia [Morice 1919, Benson 1939, Smith 1978, Schmidt 2006], Victoria [Kirby 1893, Forsius 1929a, Benson 1939, Smith 1978, Schmidt 2006]).
Associations
Host – MYRTALES Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus pauciflora niphophila (Maiden & Blakely) L.Johnson & Blaxell [Morrow et al. 1976, Schmidt 2006, Schmidt et al. 2006], Eucalyptus sp. [Maxwell 1955, Schmidt 2006].