White Clam Lerp
Lerps
White Clam Lerp
Later Instar
| White Clam Lerp Lerps | | White Clam Lerp Later Instar | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | True Bugs (Hemiptera) | ||||
| Family: | Lerp Making Psylloid (Psylloidea: Spondyliaspidinae) | ||||
| Species: | White Clam Lerp (Cardiaspina sp) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Early Instar🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dr Francesco Martoni for identifying this species for us EXTRA - Photo Specific Information: They vary in colour between yellow and red. The eyes (probably not functional yet) are the little orange bits on the front at the side. Not the black markings on the head. You can see the wings starting to develop in the middle of the body to the side. General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere We thought this was Hyalinaspis sp. There is a bit of confusion with the naming of these. The Lerp is the housing. The bug inside is a Psylloid that produces the lerp; the bug isn't a lerp. | |||||
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