Wattle Tick Scale: Adult Females

Class:

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

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Soft Scale (Coccoidea, Coccidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Wattle Tick Scale (Cryptes baccatus)

This Photo:

🔍Adult Females🔎

Thank you Thomas Mesaglio (TheBeachConber) & (InsideRelic) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere
Adult Females are ~4mm diameter. There are no appendages to worry about here

This species is

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

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