Large Mealybug: Females

Class:

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

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Giant Scale (Coccoidea, Monophlebidae)

Species:

Large Mealybug (Monophlebulus sp ES01)

This Photo:

Females

Other name:

Large Meally Bug

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
We are not sure why one of the group was orange; they are clearly cohabiting and have the same body shape so reasonably sure they are all one species.

This species is

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

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