Subspecies Apiomorpha munita malleensis Gullan, 1984

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• Apiomorpha munita malleensis 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 [31] [includes illustration and photographs].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

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

SYSTEMATICS

Female gall usually four sided with 3–4 broad blade-like appendages. Male gall tubular, apex sometimes slightly 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).

General References

Cook, L.G. 2001. Extensive chromosomal variation associated with taxon divergence and host specificity in the gall-inducing scale insect Apiomorpha munita (Schrader) (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 72(2): 265-278 [266, 267, 269] (distribution, host)

Cook, L.G., Gullan, P.J. & Stewart, A.C. 2000. First-instar morphology and sexual dimorphism in the gall-inducing scale insect Apiomorpha Rubsaamen (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae). Journal of Natural History 34(6): 879-894 [885, 887, 888] (description, taxonomy)

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 [31] (description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy)

Gullan, P.J., Cranston, P.S. & Cook. L.G. 1997. The response of gall-inducing scale insects (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae: Apiomorpha Rübsaamen) to the fire history of mallee eucalypts in Danggali Conservation Park, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 121: 137-146 [141, 142, 144] (distribution, host)

Miller, D.R. & Gimpel, M.E. 2000. A Systematic Catalogue of the Eriococcidae (Felt Scales) (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the World. Andover, UK : Intercept Ltd 589 pp. [44] (catalogue, description, distribution, host, taxonomy)

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