Wattle Tick Scale
Adult Females
Adelaide Hills
Scale Insect
Hatching
 
                      
Wattle Tick Scale (Cryptes baccatus)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:     🔍Close Up🔎

Thank you Thomas Mesaglio & (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

Copyright © 2024-2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 09-Jul-2024
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.