Species Apiomorpha densispinosa Gullan, 1984

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• Apiomorpha densispinosa 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 [98].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC, AUSTRALIA: Victoria, NW corner of Lake Albacutya about 15 km WNW Yaapeet, Big Desert [35°42'S/141°52'E].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

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

STRUCTURE

Female gall is fusiform, apex truncate and circular. Male gall tubular with dilated apex (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 with small spine-like setae; anal lobes with mucronate apices (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 species is described in detail 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 including the adult female, galls of both sexes and photos of the galls.

BIOLOGY

Female occurs mostly on the stem, but also on pedicel or calyx tube of a fruit, on a peduncle of an umbel or on a gall of another female. Male galls occur only on the adaxial surface of leaves (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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