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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) » Giant Scale Insects (Monophlebidae) » Icerya
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If this is a scale insect, it is enormous - Icerya
Copyright © 2009 margarethe brummermann

If this is a scale insect, it is enormous - Icerya
Saguaro National Park West, Pima County, Arizona, USA
April 13, 2009
Size: 9mm

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If this is a scale insect, it is enormous - Icerya If this is a scale insect, it is enormous - Icerya If this is a scale insect, it is enormous - Icerya
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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 13 April, 2009 - 10:02pm
Last updated 9 May, 2012 - 1:54pm

Moved
Moved from Giant Scale Insects.
… margarethe brummermann, 9 May, 2012 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Scales and Mealybugs.
… Charley Eiseman, 27 March, 2011 - 9:07am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Icerya. Staetococcus would be Micrococcaceae, I guess, but since the ID isn't certain I've moved back to superfamily for now.
… Charley Eiseman, 3 June, 2010 - 10:03am login or register to post comments

 
Family
Sorry I think I was wrong with the genus, but I am almost sure now it is a Monophlebidae family scale insect.
… thecochenille, 25 March, 2011 - 4:35pm login or register to post comments

 
I see...
I wasn't aware that Margarodidae had been split. I just made a new guide page for Monophlebidae... I suspect that at least some of the images currently in Margarodidae family level belong here. Can you take a look?
… Charley Eiseman, 27 March, 2011 - 9:11am login or register to post comments

Might be Staetococcus sp.
Might be Staetococcus sp.
… thecochenille, 1 June, 2010 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

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