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Fulbrightia gallicola Ferris, 1950 (Kermesidae: Fulbrightia)

Fulbrightia gallicola Ferris 1950: 7-8. Type data: CHINA: Yunnan Province, Kunming, An-lin-wen-chian, on Quercus delavayi, 28/04/1949, by G.F. Ferris. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Davis: The Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, California, USA; accepted valid name Illustr.
Fullbrightia gallicola; Hoy 1963: 126-127. misspelling of genus name

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Beardsley (1984) treated this species as a Kermesidae, not Eriococcidae and Baer & Kosztarab (1985) agreed based on the presence of only two pairs of longitudinal lines of setae and simple pores on the first instar. The adult female has multilocular pores similar to kermesids also.
Structure: Adult female is oval (Ferris, 1950).
Biology: This insect causes galls on the host. It attaches itself at the base of a twig bud, causing the entire twig to be distorted in such a manner that all the lateral twigs which arise beyond this point are greatly shortened, the leaves are reduced in size and each twig with its leaves forms a short cone. The area shared by the bases of several of these cones becomes swollen and buried among the bases of the cones is the insect which induced the formation of the gall. When the bases of the cones are pulled apart the body of the insect may be seen. As far as noted there is but one insect associated with the gall (Ferris, 1950).
General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration by Ferris (1950).