Species Opisthoscelis pisiformis Froggatt, 1894
- Opisthoscelis pisiformis Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 335-348 [343].
Ecological Descriptors
Sap-feeder.
GENERAL
Detailed description and illustration of adults, galls and first-instar nymphs by Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 335–348.
STRUCTURE
Female galls green, tinged with reddish-brown, soft globular excrescences covering the leaves, basal orifice on the underside of the leaf, keyhole in shape. First-stage female pale yellow, almost a regular oval, looking very much like a small seed. Second stage salmon-pink in color, oval. Male galls conical, brown, truncate apex, with an irregular oval aperture. Immature males in these cells pale red, swathed in thick white felty sacs (see Froggatt, W.W. 1894. Notes on the family Brachyscelidae, with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 335–348).