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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Scales and Mealybugs (Coccoidea)
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really small ?
Copyright © 2008 Kerry S. Matz

really small ?
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
September 14, 2008
Size: 0.66mm
At the limits of the Canon 65mm at 5x (hand held). Found associated with an elm leaf gall , when placed on the leaf it would run back to the gall.

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really small ? really small ?
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Contributed by Kerry S. Matz on 8 January, 2009 - 8:23pm
Last updated 20 May, 2009 - 7:43pm

Moved
Moved from True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies.
… Kerry S. Matz, 20 May, 2009 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

Not an ID but
how about something in Coccoidea ?
Here are a couple that remind me a bit, but I don't know any more than that.
… John R. Maxwell, 1 March, 2009 - 10:28am login or register to post comments

 
This seems
to be most the appropriate placement. If not, we can blame J.R.Maxwell. ;)>
… Kerry S. Matz, 20 May, 2009 - 7:41pm login or register to post comments

I don't think it is a mite. T
I don't think it is a mite. There is a chance that it just might be a mite, but if I was going to place money I wouldn't say it was a mite. For the most part, Mites don't have external segmentation as seen in this picture, with the exception of some groups. The eriophyids do have regular repeated external segmentation but they are much smaller than this specimen, and you will never photograph them with a hand held camera. I would figure that the appendages near the eyes are antennae.
… Wayne Knee, 26 February, 2009 - 12:04pm login or register to post comments

 
I was hoping
that someone might recognize the arrangement of setae around the head for a clue. The image(s) make it difficult for a conclusion on the anteriormost appendage, it seems that the insertion is behind what appears to be the eye (leg or antenna?).
… Kerry S. Matz, 1 March, 2009 - 10:09am login or register to post comments

Acari?
Do you think it's safe to move to Acari, anyway?
… Ken Schneider, 11 February, 2009 - 5:40pm login or register to post comments

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