Small Mealybug: Female, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Giant Scale (Coccoidea, Monophlebidae)

Species:

Small Mealybug (Monophlebulus sp ES02)

This Photo:

Female, dorsal

Other name:

Small Meally Bug

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
It's possibly a nymph, and at 2mm body & head length is not very big.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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