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Scale insect gall

Apiomorpha spinifer

Photo by Leuba Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

Probably two galls - a small egg shaped brown gall with a small apical opening and arising from it a pale greenish-yellow gall which looked like a folded or unopened disc. The folded edge showed a waxy white substance.

Habitat:

Spotted on a leaf of a young broad-leaved eucalyptus tree.

Notes:

Thanks to Dr Lyn Cook for identifying these galls. The brown gall is the mother and the folded disc is a compound gall of males growing on their mother.

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