Wattle Tick Scale: Adult Females

Class:

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

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Scale Insect (Coccoidea, Coccidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Wattle Tick Scale (Cryptes baccatus)

This Photo:

🔍Adult Females🔎

Thank you Thomas Mesaglio for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere

This species is

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

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