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• Brachyscelis beyeriae Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. Descriptions of South Australian brachyscelid galls. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 265-280 [271] [Apiomorpha, (formerly Brachyscelis), is known only from Eucalyptus species. The galls of B. beyeriae which Tepper illustrated, do not resemble those of Apiomorpha; they are probably not coccoid galls. This was recognized by Froggatt (1894), who strongly criticized Tepper's reference to brachyscelid galls on Beyeria opaca", (see Gullan 1984)].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀ and first instar, Ardrossan, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

  Type host:

   Beyeria opaca [EUPHORBIACEAE]

  Secondary source:

   Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on a new classification of the Brachyscelidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa [1893]: 75-76; Cockerell, T.D.A. 1896. A check list of the Coccidae. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 4: 318-339; Houard, C. 1923. Les Zoocécides des plantes d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Océanie. Dicotyledones. Paris, France : Hermann Vol. 2 1056 pp.; Gullan, P.J. 1984. A revision of the gall-forming coccoid genus Apiomorpha Rübsaamen (Homoptera: Eriococcidae: Apiomorphinae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 97: 1-203; Miller, D.R. & Gimpel, M.E. 2000. A Systematic Catalogue of the Eriococcidae (Felt Scales) (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the World. Andover, UK : Intercept Ltd 589 pp.
• Brachyscelis glabra Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. Descriptions of South Australian brachyscelid galls. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 265-280 [278] [nomen dubium; Name of doubtful application because it could refer to either A. floralis or A. withersi].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA parasitized gall of ♀, Kangaroo Flat, South Australia'.
  Paratype(s) SAMA damaged gall of ♀ (The localities listed in the original description of B. glabra are 'Mount Lofty Ranges, Lyndoch, etc.'), Murray Bridge, South Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Mills, P.J., Gullan, P.J. & Cook, L.G. 2017. Nomenclatural changes in the Australasian gall-inducing genus Apiomorpha Rübsaamen (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Eriococcidae). Zootaxa 4250(5): 484–488.

General References

Fernand, M.E. 1903. A catalogue of the Coccidae of the world. Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment Station of the Massachusetts Agricultural College 88: 1–360 [43] (change in status and combination)

Short, J.R.T. 1947. Description and life history of a new western Australian coccid. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 71: 257-269 [259] (status revised)

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