Species Apiomorpha subconica (Tepper, 1893)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Brachyscelis subconica Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. Descriptions of South Australian brachyscelid galls. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 265-280 [274].

Ecological Descriptors

Sap-feeder.

ID Keys

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

GENERAL

The most comprehensive treatment of this 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 describes the adult female, female gall, and male gall and provides photographs of the galls.

BIOLOGY

Female gall is produced on stems and rarely on the calyx tube of fruit. Male gall is usually found on leaves, occasionally on the female 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).

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 <1400 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 squat to elongate, fusiform. Male galls tubular, apex rim irregular (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

Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on a new classification of the Brachyscelidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa [1893]: 75-76 [76] (Brachyscelis conica: misidentification discovered by : 122)

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 (Froggatt (1894a) and (1898a), Lidgett (1899), Houard (1923), Lindinger (1957), Hoy (1963), and Weidner (1974) erroneously considered this species to be a junior synonym of Apiomorpha conica)

Lindinger, L. 1957. Ein weiterer Beitrag zur Synonymie der Cocciden. Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 7: 543-553 [545] (Apiomorpha conica: misidentification discovered by : 122)