Species Apiomorpha urnalis (Tepper, 1893)

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• Brachyscelis urnalis Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. Descriptions of South Australian brachyscelid galls. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 265-280 [271].
• Brachyscelis schraderi Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on a new classification of the Brachyscelidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa [1893]: 75-76 [76] [nom. nud.; Froggatt 1894a mentioned it as a manuscript name of Olliff without any description. It was ultimately described by Fuller (1896) as B. shraderi (sic.). Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on a new classification of the Brachyscelidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. Cape Town [1893]: 75–76 considered B. urnalis to be a junior synonym of B. schraderi, but since B. schraderi was a nomen nudum, it was unavailable and B. urnalis takes precedence. See also Froggatt, W.W. 1898. The growth of vegetable galls. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 9: 385–391, 488–499: 494].

  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; Froggatt, W.W. 1898. The growth of vegetable galls. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 9: 385-391, 488-499.
• Brachyscelis shraderi Fuller, C. 1896. Forest insects. Some gall-making coccids. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 7: 209-218 [214] [described as a manuscript name of Olliff. For a discussion of the spelling of this name see notes for Brachyscelis schraderi Fuller (1896) consistently misspelled Schrader's name as "Shrader" and named his species accordingly. Based on the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Article 32(c)(ii) shraderi is the correct spelling of the species epithet because there is no clear evidence of an inadvertent error in the original publication].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Froggatt, W.W. 1898. The growth of vegetable galls. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 9: 385-391, 488-499 [494] (synonymy of Brachyscelis shraderi Fuller, 1896)

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Gullan, P.J., 1984) [10] (adult female; Adult females and female galls of Apiomorpha)

SYSTEMATICS

Slide-mounted adult female is characterized by having: abdominal segment IX with ventral and dorsal lengths subequal, not fused with abdominal segment VIII; abdominal segment IX with posterior margin fused with anal lobes; body, segment IX, and anal lobes very slender; segment IX shorter than total length of remainder of abdomen; antennae 5-segmented; cephalic apodemes absent (see 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).

STRUCTURE

Female gall urn-shaped, apex truncate. Male galls very small, apex truncate (see 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).

GENERAL

Detailed description and illustration by 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 who also photographed male and female galls. Ferris, G.F. 1957. Notes on some little known genera of the Coccoidea (Homoptera). Microentomology 22: 59–79 also described and illustrated the adult female.

BIOLOGY

Female gall is produced on stems and occasionally on fruit. Male gall is produced on twigs and on the galls of females (see 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).

General References

Froggatt, W.W. 1898. The growth of vegetable galls. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 9: 385-391, 488-499 [494] (Brachyscelis schraderi: unjustified emendation; p. 493 & pl. 4 Brachyscelis uranalis: misspelling of species name)

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