Subspecies Apiomorpha munita tereticornuta Gullan, 1984

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• Apiomorpha munita tereticornuta 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 [30].

Distribution

States

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

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

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

SYSTEMATICS

Mature galls four sided with cylindrical or narrow, blade-like appendages which continue basally as indistinct corner ridges on the body of the gall (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). First instar illustrated by Ferris, G.F. 1957. Notes on some little known genera of the Coccoidea (Homoptera). Microentomology 22: 59–79, adult female described and illustrated by Gullan (1984) with photographs of male and female galls.

General References

Cook, L.G. 2000. Extraordinary and extensive karyotypic variation: A 48–fold range in chromosome number in the gall-inducing scale insect Apiomorpha (Hemiptera: Coccoidea : Eriococcidae). Genome 43(2): 255-263 [256, 257] (distribution, physiology)

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 [883, 885, 887, 888] (illustration, taxonomy)

Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Some account of the gall-making insects of Australia. Australian Natural History 5: 109-114 [111] (taxonomy)

Froggatt, W.W. 1907. Australian Insects. Sydney : W. Brooks & Co. xiv 449 pp., 37 pls. [Date published April 11, 1907] [382] (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 [30] (description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy)

Gullan, P.J. & Strong, K.L. 1997. Scale insects under eucalypt bark: a revision of the Australian genus Phacelococus Miller (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 36: 229-240 [235] (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. [46-47] (catalogue, description, distribution, host, taxonomy)

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