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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
	Order:	True Bugs (Hemiptera)
	Family:	Giant Scale (Coccoidea, Monophlebidae)
	Species:	Large Mealybug (Monophlebulus sp ES01)
	This Photo:	Females
	Other name:	Large Meally Bug
	General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere We are not sure why one of the group was orange; they are clearly cohabiting and have the same body shape so reasonably sure they are all one species.
	Copyright © 2013-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 18-Jul-2013
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.