Species Acanthococcus apiomorphae (Fuller, 1897)

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• Eriococcus apiomorphae Fuller, C. 1897. Some Coccidae of Western Australia. Journal of Western Australia Bureau of Agriculture 4: 1344-1346 [1345].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNEC (There are five specimens labeled "type" in the USNM that apparently are in Fuller's handwriting. The label data are "Swan River/Western Australia" with no other details.), AUSTRALIA: Western Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Acanthococcus apiomorphae (Fuller, 1897). —
  Miller, D.R. & Gimpel, M.E. 1996. Nomenclatural changes in the Eriococcidae (Homoptera: Coccoidea). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 98: 597-606 [598]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

(Gullan, P.J. & Vranjic, J.A., 1991) [26] (adult female; key to allow adult females of E. confusus and E. coriaceus to be distinguished from adult females of other Australian Eriococcus species found on Eucalyptus)

GENERAL

Most comprehensive descriptions are by Fuller, C. 1897. Coccid literature. Journal of Western Australia Bureau of Agriculture 4: 1342–1343 and Fuller, C. 1899. XIV. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435–473, but are very brief.

BIOLOGY

Eriococcus apiomorphae was collected from the female galls of Apiomorpha maliformis on Eucalyptus sp. (see Fuller, C. 1897. Coccid literature. Journal of Western Australia Bureau of Agriculture 4: 1342–1343).

SYSTEMATICS

Slide-mounted adult female with: distinct marginal row of enlarged setae (see Gullan, P.J. & Vranjic, J.A. 1991. The taxonomy of the gum tree scales Eriococcus confusus Maskell and E. coriaceus Maskell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae). General and Applied Entomology 23: 21–40).

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