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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) » Felt Scales (Eriococcidae) » Ovaticoccus » Felt Scale (Ovaticoccus agavium)
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On Agave americana - Ovaticoccus agavium
Copyright © 2009 margarethe brummermann

On Agave americana - Ovaticoccus agavium
Picture Rocks, NW of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
February 17, 2009
The left one is slightly segmented

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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 17 February, 2009 - 5:23pm

Moved
Moved from Ovaticoccus.
… Tim Loh, 17 February, 2009 - 6:09pm login or register to post comments

Ovaticoccus agavium (Douglas,
The smaller insects are Eriococcidae, Ovaticoccus agavium (Douglas, 1888). I'm not sure what the non-segmented fluid-filled bags, without legs and mouthparts are.
… Dennis Haines, 17 February, 2009 - 6:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Those 'bags'
must be part of the scale insects cycle of development - there were all kinds of in between stages.
… margarethe brummermann, 17 February, 2009 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Its typical for this species
Its typical for this species to have multiple life-stages present at one time. Still I would have expected mature, pre-ovipositional females to have legs. They must be tiny. The shape of the larger individuals may have distorted due to their tight quarters.
… Dennis Haines, 17 February, 2009 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

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