Species Apiomorpha regularis (Tepper, 1893)

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• Brachyscelis regularis Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. Descriptions of South Australian brachyscelid galls. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 265-280 [273].
• 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 (126). Froggatt (1894) 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].

  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

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

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

GENERAL

The most comprehensive treatment of the species 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, and male gall and included photos.

BIOLOGY

Female gall is produced on stems or on the peduncle of an umbel. Male gall is produced on both leave surfaces (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 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 middle and hind legs never falciform; anal lobes >1700 µ long (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 is fusiform and often pedunculate, apex small and usually 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).

General References

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1899. Article VII. – First supplement to the check-list of the Coccidae. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 5: 389-398 [393] (Apiomorpha conica: misidentification discovered by : 120)

Froggatt, W.W. 1898. The growth of vegetable galls. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 9: 385-391, 488-499 [493] (Brachyscelis conica: described both sexes, illustrated; misidentification discovered by : 119)

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