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Genus Apiomorpha Rübsaamen, 1894

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC) ; WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Murchison (MUR), Yalgoo (YAL)

ID Keys

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

 

SYSTEMATICS

Slide-mounted adult female with following diagnostic characters: body turbinate; antennae 5-segmented or less; mouth parts small; legs 3-segmented with tibia and tarsus fused and femur and trochanter fused; coxa and femur with translucent pores; anal lobes elongate, with 1 or 2 spine-like setae; multilocular pores with 7 or more loculi; spine-like setae present on all but one species. First instar with: 6-segmented antennae; legs 5-segmented; body margin with row of enlarged, spine-like setae, each seta winged by horizontal, hyaline membrane. 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

This genus occurs almost exclusively in Australia, though Apiomorpha pedunculata is recorded from Papua New Guinea, 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

Beardsley, J.W. 1984. Gall-forming Coccoidea. In, Ananthakrishnan, T.N. (ed.). Biology of Gall Insects. New Delhi : Oxford & IBH. Publ. Co. 400 pp. (Adult females induce some of the largest and most conspicuous of all scale insect galls. The galls are sexually dimorphic and are found only on Australasian Eucalyptus species. This is the largest genus of strictly gallicolus coccoids)

Mills, P.J., MacDonald, M.L., Rigby, L.M. & Cook, L.G. 2011. A recently discovered species of Apiomorpha Rübsaamen (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae) with unusual gall morphology. Zootaxa 3093: 55-63 (study of Apiomorpha minor-group)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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