Valid Names Results

Apiomorpha spinifer Froggatt, 1930 (Eriococcidae: Apiomorpha)

Nomenclatural History

• Apiomorpha spinifer Froggatt 1930: 470. Type data: AUSTRALIA: Queensland, Stanthorpe, on Eucalyptus sp. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Canberra: Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, Australia; accepted valid name Notes: Although the syntypes have a "holotype" label, these were added after the description of Froggatt, and he did not mention types in his description; therefore only a lectotype can be designated as a primary type.
• Apiomorpha pharetrata; Theron 1968: 87. misidentification (discovered by Gullan1984, 76). Illustr.

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• Hodgso2020: pp.53 ( Adult (M) ) [Apiomorpha species]
• Gullan1984: pp.10 ( Adult (F) ) [Adult females and female galls of Apiomorpha]

Remarks

• 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 truncate ventrally; with 2-5 spine-like ventral setae near apex of head (Gullan, 1984). The male of A. spinifer was described by Theron (1968) (as A. ?pharetreta (Schrader)). The present description differs from his in the following details (Theron’s data in brackets): (i) apparent absence of ocelli (distinctly visible as pigmented spots in untreated specimens but sometimes enveloped by the postocular ridges); (ii) no small tubercular structure detected at anterior end of prosternite (present); and (iii) tarsi clearly two segmented (one segmented). The adult male of A. spinifer is almost identical to that of A. pharetrata, only apparently differing in a few small particulars, the significance of which is unknown
• Structure: Female gall cylindrical to fusiform, apex truncate. Male galls are compound, tubular (Gullan, 1984).
• Biology: Female gall is produced on or near midrib of leaves. Male gall occurs in clusters attached to the maternal gall (Gullan, 1984). Cook & Gullan (2002) provide information on gall and insect development under glasshouse conditions (summarized in table 2, page 262).
• General Remarks: Adult female described and illustrated, female and male gall described and photographed by Gullan (1984). Adult male described by Theron (1968) but under name A. ?pharetrata. Hodgson (2002) used this species in a phylogenetic analysis of non-margarodid Coccoidea. Detailed description and illustration in Hodgson, 2020.

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