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Trigonocyttara clandestina
About 30mm long. Case is made of tiny pieces of chewed wood and bark but this one has a single straight stick embedded.
On eucalyptus in a local nature reserve.
I have often found cases with multiple or all sticks and many which are entirely made of chewed particles but not often a combination. Many types use sticks sewn into a plain silk case but only a few combine some sticks with the chewed pulp.
Spotted on Dec 31, 2013
Submitted on Dec 31, 2013
3 Comments
I think the issue is that I haven't often seen a 'stick' type combined with the chewed pulp. Many of the stick types have only simple silk between as with the 'Floating Lantern' or Saunder's. I think this cuts my choices to a couple of species and I'm suspecting the one that has the pulp with sticks longer than the case... Trigonocyttara clandestina
I read that as they grow, they cut a slit from the inside, grab a stick and sew it into place, one by one.
Consider this 'stick' psyllid as an infant. I would suggest that after a week it will have add more sticks. He's got to start somewhere.