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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) » Soft Scale Insects (Coccidae)
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scale insect?
Copyright © 2009 Virginia Malone

scale insect?
Hondo, TX, Medina County, Texas, USA
March 15, 2009
Size: 3-4 mm
On the top side of TX Mt.Laural leaf. I pealed off the epidermis and was able to dislodge this one. It attached itself to a glass coverslip. Are the two black spots on the "front" of the animal its eyes? If you know of a good book on scale insect anatomy or URL please post. I did find http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/ScaleKeys/index.html which is a key to scale insects and some info. Looks like this might be Family Coccidae.
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Contributed by Virginia Malone on 15 March, 2009 - 11:59pm
Last updated 2 June, 2010 - 8:48am

Those "eyes":
I was looking for an answer to the eye question and came upon a drawing that had a variety of ducts on the bug, some apparently big enough to see. Could that be what the "eyes" really are?
… SusannahA, 4 November, 2012 - 3:19am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Scales and Mealybugs.
… John R. Maxwell, 2 June, 2010 - 8:48am login or register to post comments

Coccidae
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