White Clam Lerp
Early Instar
White Clam Lerp
Adult
| White Clam Lerp Early Instar | | White Clam Lerp Adult | | ||
 | 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: | 🔍Later Instar🔎 | ||||
Thank you Dr Francesco Martoni for identifying this species for us EXTRA - Photo Specific Information: Larger wings and antenna. Notice one wing has a "deformity". Well so we thought. We now realise it's either a cast off skin or it's another instar hiding on it. Either way, the important issue is the huge growth from younger to older! 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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