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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Scales and Mealybugs (Coccoidea) » Kuwaniidae » Neosteingelia » pecan giant scales (Neosteingelia texana)
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Unknown - Neosteingelia texana - male
Copyright © 2006 Perry Babin

Unknown - Neosteingelia texana - Male
Ascension Parish, Louisiana, USA
Size: ~5mm

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Contributed by Perry Babin on 4 November, 2006 - 1:47am
Last updated 24 August, 2021 - 8:21am

Moved
Moved from Xylococcidae.
… Matt Bertone, 24 August, 2021 - 8:21am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Scales and Mealybugs.
… v belov, 25 July, 2012 - 2:25am login or register to post comments

Could it be a thrips or somet
Could it be a thrips or something? No idea...
… Noor Beckwith, 4 November, 2006 - 5:07pm login or register to post comments

 
[redundant]
… v belov, 12 December, 2010 - 3:11pm login or register to post comments

Male Coccoid?
This is just a stab in the dark... about all I'm sure of is that it isn't dipteran.
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 4 November, 2006 - 12:03pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree.
It is a male scale insect of some sort. Great call, Joe:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 6 November, 2006 - 2:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Could this be misidentified?
It looks more like the twisted wing parasites (Strepsipteran).

http://www.broad.mit.edu/~arokas/toa.html
… Perry Babin, 26 April, 2007 - 6:40pm login or register to post comments

 
male scale insect
If you look closely, you will see tiny wing buds behind the main wings, whereas in Strepsiptera it is the front wings that are reduced to scalelike flaps (they are beetle relatives). Also, male Strepsiptera have branching antennae to help them locate the female, which remains as a parasite on the abdomen of its host, waiting for the male to find her.
… Andy Hamilton, 24 December, 2007 - 8:12am login or register to post comments

 
this is definitely a male sca
this is definitely a male scale insect. the really nice compound eyes signifies that they are some "old" families of scale insects. To go further, we have to mount the specimen unfortunately...
… thecochenille, 2 June, 2010 - 8:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Xylococcidae
From my recent training on male scale insects, I believe now this is a Xylococcidae.
… thecochenille, 23 July, 2012 - 4:56pm login or register to post comments

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