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Scale Insect

superfamily Coccoidea

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Field Notes

Description:

white, rounded reversed-saucer shaped scales of a few mm

Habitat:

On a leathery gum sapling in an open wood and grasslands

Notes:

# star scale

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Scale insect

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
StephenSolomons
Thanks l.cook. I wonder where the scale insect id came from? Have to check
l.cook
These are lerps - excretions of psyllids (Psylloidea) that cover the insect..

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Flora & Fauna of New South Wales
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PublishedDecember 19, 2013

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