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Pseudozaphanera wariensis
A small dark blue winged insect, about 3 mm long, with a greenish-brown bulbous thorax and long antennae. Paddle-shaped wings were tented up over the body.
Spotted in large numbers on a wattle plant - suburban garden.
My thanks to Stephen Thorpe for pointing me in the right direction with identifying this insect and to Peter S.Gillespie for the ID
These are hemipterans from:
Family: Aleyrodidae
Subfamily: Aleyrodinae
The pupae look like this:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/163...