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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Coccoid nymf - was: Don't know what this is

Posted by Jan Willem on 13-08-2010 14:44

This specimen was collected in a pitfall trap in "De Kaaistoep" (The Nehterlands: Tilburg). Collecting date 8-15 July 2010.
Does anyone have an idea what this is? Size: 1 mm.

Edited by Jan Willem on 16-08-2010 07:21

Posted by Paul Beuk on 13-08-2010 15:16

Most likely a scale insect.

Posted by Jan Willem on 13-08-2010 16:16

Thanks Paul. I will try to search in that area.

Posted by cthirion on 15-08-2010 22:43

Perhaps Mallophages ?????

Posted by Grigory Popov on 16-08-2010 00:22

I think that it's Coccoidea.

Posted by Jan Willem on 16-08-2010 07:19

Thanks Cthirion and Grigory. From another source I have received the response that it is most probably a pseudococcid nymf, so that corresponds with the opinion of Grigory.
Pseudoccocid nymfs cannot be identified to species level since no keys for nymfs are available. I will have to go back in April/May next year to try to find adults.
I will change the title to coccoid nymf.

Edited by Jan Willem on 16-08-2010 07:23

Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-08-2010 19:58

LoL, Coccoidea - scale insect, right?