Species Apiomorpha pedunculata (Fuller, 1896)

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• Brachyscelis pedunculata Fuller, C. 1896. Forest insects. Some gall-making coccids. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 7: 209-218 [212] [Froggatt first mentioned A. pedunculata without a description and attributed the name to Olliff who had used it in a manuscript but never published it. Froggatt considered it to be the senior synonym of regularis based on the date of Olliff's manuscript. This of course is erroneous. Fuller (1896) published Olliff's name pedunculata which is a valid species].
• Brachyscelis pedunculata Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on a new classification of the Brachyscelidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa [1893]: 75-76 [76] [nom. nud., 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 (120) manuscript name of Olliff, see Fuller, 1896: 212].

  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.

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

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

STRUCTURE

Female gall large, fusiform, pedunculate, 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). Adult female elongate-lanceolate (Williams, D.J. & Watson, G.W. 1990. The Scale Insects of the Tropical South Pacific Region. Pt. 3: The soft scales (Coccidae) and other families. London : CAB International Institute of Entomology 267 pp.).

BIOLOGY

Female galls are produced on stems singly or in clusters. Male galls are produced singly on stems, petioles or leaf blades of host plant (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 most comprehensive treatment 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, male gall and provided photos of the galls.

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 slender, rarely heavily sclerotized; spine-like setae not restricted to dorsum of last 3 segments; tibiotarsus of all legs falciform (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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