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Oribatid found in relationship with the scale insect Cryptococcus fagisuga

Oribatid found in relationship with the scale insect Cryptococcus fagisuga
Mont St-Hilaire, Montérégie County, Quebec, Canada
November 11, 2014
This oribatid was found in an unidentidied orange silk covering a colony of the scale insect Cryptococcus fagisuga. I don't understand the interaction involved here, but it is definitely intriguing.

Pictures of the C. fagisuga colony:

Moved
Moved from Oripodoidea.

Moved
Moved from Brachypylina.

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