White Clam Lerp: Lerps

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:

Lerps

Thank you Dr Francesco Martoni for identifying this species for us

EXTRA - Photo Specific Information:
You can see the instar under the shell lerp on the left. The orange things are their egg casings we think The little white shell with black legs on a lerp is an old shedding when they molted
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.

This species is

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

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