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Female Psyllid bug

Photo by ChunXingWong
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Field Notes

Description:

A strange running creature about 6mm.
Black legs and body.
The sides of it's body are lined orange.
There is a white dot on the back of it's abdomen.
At first I thought that this bizarre creature is an arachnid, some large mite species.
But after some close observation, I realized that it has too much body segments to be an arachnid and it's front pair of legs look more like a pair of antenna.
So I think it is an insect's young.
Thanks to martinl, I have now know that is a female Psyllid bug (Psyllidae) of the Hemiptera order.

Habitat:

Kinabalu National Park, Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia.

Notes:

This weird animal really amazed and confused me.
This is a challenge for me, an insect I came across that I can't really identify.
But now, I know that it is a Psyllid bug with the help of martinl.
>>>Map accuracy : 400m diameter.

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Comments (3)
ChunXingWong
Thank you, that was indeed helpful. Wow, I never suspected that it is a Psyllid bug because most of the species that I've seen are those "hairy" mealybugs.
MartinL
Here is another one from spain http://www.flickr.com/photos/10770266@N04/5989266867/in/pool-1522609@N25/
MartinL
Hello ChunXingWong I love your photos and your interest in bugs. This is a bug (Class;insecta Order;Hemiptera suborder;Sternorrhyncha,) It is a psyllid bug and seems to have six legs and a central proboscis which it uses to suck juices from plants, as all bugs do. Psyllids exhibit sexual dimorphism with males usually looking very different and having wings. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgg310/6101179797/ Many psyllid (females) form galls on plants and live their whole lives inside. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/66925960@N08/6168171690/in/set-72157627717316074 but yours is freely mobile. See http://images.ask.com/fr?q=Eriococcidae&desturi=http%3A%2F%2Fbugguide.net%2Fnode%2Fview%2F125%2Fbgimage&initialURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ask.com%2Fc%2Fwiki%2Fmain%2Fpage%3Fq%3DEriococcidae%26risuReqURI%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.ask.com%252Fwiki%252FEriococcidae%26qsrc%3D3044&fm=i&ac=0&fsel=2&ftURI=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.ask.com%2Ffr%3Fq%3DEriococcidae%26desturi%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fbugguide.net%252Fnode%252Fview%252F125%252Fbgimage%26imagesrc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fbugguide.net%252Fimages%252Fcache%252FRQ9RYKWRIQTQU0H0N00060R060ORJKTQE0TRIQL0N0FRKQORSQCRFKNRRQ1RMQ3RIQ1R3K3QI0CQ80CQRQAR40CQI0.jpg%26thumbsrc%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fmedia4.picsearch.com%252Fis%253FVREX9E1XSFrKcroHzYhLp0HRUgzhPtO62GKS2FgR3yE%26o%3D0%26l%3Ddir%26thumbuselocalisedstatic%3Dfalse%26thumbwidth%3D125%26thumbheight%3D103%26fn%3DRQ9RYKWRIQTQU0H0N00060R060ORJKTQE0TRIQL0N0FRKQORSQCRFKNRRQ1RMQ3RIQ1R3K3QI0CQ80CQRQAR40CQI0.jpg%26imagewidth%3D125%26imageheight%3D103%26fs%3D24%26f%3D2%26fm%3Di%26fsel%3D2%26ftbURI%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.ask.com%252Fc%252Fwiki%252Fmain%252Fpage%253Fq%253DEriococcidae%2526page%253D1%2526o%253D0%2526l%253Ddir%2526pstart%253D&qt=0.

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Arthropods Below The Wind - Sabah
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PublishedOctober 25, 2011

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