User:Galler18/Apiomorpha jucundacrispi

Apiomorpha jucundacrispi
	Gall of adult female of Apiomorpha jucundacrispi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily:	Coccoidea
Family:	Eriococcidae
Genus:	Apiomorpha
Species:	A. jucundacrispi; Mills, Semple, Garland & Cook, 2016

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Apiomorpha jucundacrispi is a species of scale insect that induces galls on species of Eucalyptus jucunda in Western Australia^[1]. The female induces a large gall (to 3 cm) that looks like it is covered in woody moss. This wears off in older galls which then look egg-shaped with a rough surface. Males induce a small tube-like gall covered in woody projections.

Morphology

Like females of other scale insects, those of A. jucundacrispi do not have wings.

Systematics

Apiomorpha jucundacrispi is currently placed in the Apiomorpha hilli species group, on the basis of morphology of adult females and DNA-based phylogenies that show it is closely related to other species of Apiomorpha that induce galls on Eucalyptus subgenus Eudesmia^[1].

References

^ ^a ^b Mills, P.J., Semple, T.L., Garland, K.L.S. & Cook, L.G. (2016) Two recently discovered species of Apiomorpha (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae) feeding on eudesmid eucalypts in Western Australia reaffirm host conservatism in this gall-inducing scale insect genus. Invertebrate Systematics, 30, 255-273.

External links

ScaleNet: a database of the scale insects

Category:Scale insects Category:Hemiptera Category:Hemiptera of Australia Category:Insects

[Millsetal2016-1] Mills, P.J., Semple, T.L., Garland, K.L.S. & Cook, L.G. (2016) Two recently discovered species of Apiomorpha (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae) feeding on eudesmid eucalypts in Western Australia reaffirm host conservatism in this gall-inducing scale insect genus. Invertebrate Systematics, 30, 255-273.

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