Scale Insect: Juvenile

Class:

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

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Scale Insect (Coccoidea, Coccidae)

Species:

Scale Insect (Pulvinaria cf sp ES01)

This Photo:

Juvenile

Thank you Prof Lyn Cook for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Primarily brilliant white (which is the egg sack) with a brown cap (the actual insect).
Found on saltbush (Atriplex sp).
This is a tentantive id, the cf indicating "it looks like", "it might", but not definate.
Lyn said "They�re coccids with a long ovisac. Possibly Pulvinaria but the whole group needs revision."

This species is

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

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