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Diptera.info :: Pretty scale insect; what family, please?
Posted by
Stephen
on 03-04-2019 16:21
#1
A pretty scale insect I photographed in southern Guyana, tended by ants. What family, please?
Posted by
Dukegraffio
on 05-04-2019 09:39
#2
Dukegraffio wrote:
It should be the Coccidae family, Homoptera
Sternorrhyncha section, the simultaneous presence of ants leaves no doubt, as they feed on the honeydew that produces the scale insects.