Species Apiomorpha conica (Froggatt, 1893)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Brachyscelis conica Froggatt, W.W. 1893. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with some account of their parasites, and descriptions of new species. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 353-378 [365].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, USNM (Notes: There is a slide in the USNM labeled as cotype but it is of uncertain authenticity. It contains the abdominal segment nine and anal lobes of an adult female. The slide is labeled "Apiomorpha/conica(Frog)/Cotype/on Eucalyptus sp./N.S.W. W.W.W. Froggatt Coll. #30" Illustr.), AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Yass, Goulburn and Cooma.
• Apiomorpha similis Rübsaamen, E.H. 1894. Über australische Zoocecidien und deren Erzeuger. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39: 199-234 [210].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Froggatt, W.W. 1898. The growth of vegetable galls. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 9: 385-391, 488-499 [493]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

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

GENERAL

The most comprehensive treatment of this species is 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 described the adult female, female gall, and male gall and provided photos of the galls.

BIOLOGY

Female gall occurs on stem, but occasionally occurring amongst buds or fruit of an umbel or on the side of the bud. Male gall occurs on both sides of leaves near midrib, also on stems (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).

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 not slender; dorsum of head and thorax without spine-like setae; segment IX and anal lobes robust, sclerotized on mature individuals; segment IX and anal lobes with about 7 spine-like setae, segment VIII with 2–97 such setae; spine-like setae present in rows on dorsum of segments II–IV; hind legs 1120–2100µ long (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 variable in shape, ellipsoidal to obovoid, often fusiform, apex truncate. Male gall tubular, apex dilated (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).

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