Species Apiomorpha cucurbita Fuller, 1899

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• Apiomorpha cucurbita Fuller, C. 1899. XIV. Notes and descriptions of some species of Western Australian Coccidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 435-473 [446].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) (Notes: Gullan (1984) was unable to locate any material of this species except an aborted gall from Fuller's original collection. Illustr.), AUSTRALIA: Western Australia, Kimberley.

  Type locality references:

  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 [10].
• Apiomorpha regularis cucurbita Fuller, C. 1897. Some Coccidae of Western Australia. Journal of Western Australia Bureau of Agriculture 4: 1344-1346 [1346] [nom. nud.; only a new variety name and a locality given; 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: 126].

  Secondary source:

   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.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

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

BIOLOGY

Female gall occurs on the stem of the host (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 ellipsoidal, apex truncate. Male gall not observed. Adult females are unknown (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

The only specimens known of this species are galls; no females have been examined. The most 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.

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