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Apiomorpha munita
Pic 1 shows a female gall with four winged horns. The gall was semi dry and still had a thin waxy coating. On a neighbouring branch were clusters of similar galls (Pics 2 & 3). Pic 3 shows a female gall with small short tubular male galls on it. The male galls have apical holes thorugh which the adult insect would have emerged.
Spotted on a eucalyptus tree (pic 4) near a lake in a reserve.
These galls were formed by a gall forming scale insect Apiomorpha of the Eriococcidae family. http://www.lyncook.org/Lyn_Cook/Apiomorp...
Spotted on Sep 26, 2014
Submitted on Sep 26, 2014
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Might be fresher than the last ones? Still got some green on it. :-)