Sedge Scale Insect: Close

Class:

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

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Armored Scale Insect (Coccoidea, Diaspididae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Sedge Scale Insect (Furcaspis cladii)

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Thank you Prof Benjamin Normark (BNormark) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere
<2mm diameter on Clustered Sword-sedge (Lepidosperma congestum)

This species is

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

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