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A strange running creature about 6mm. Black legs and body. The sides of it's body are lined orange. There is a white dot on the back of it's abdomen. At first I thought that this bizarre creature is an arachnid, some large mite species. But after some close observation, I realized that it has too much body segments to be an arachnid and it's front pair of legs look more like a pair of antenna. So I think it is an insect's young. Thanks to martinl, I have now know that is a female Psyllid bug (Psyllidae) of the Hemiptera order.
Kinabalu National Park, Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia.
This weird animal really amazed and confused me. This is a challenge for me, an insect I came across that I can't really identify. But now, I know that it is a Psyllid bug with the help of martinl. >>>Map accuracy : 400m diameter.
Spotted on Dec 16, 2009
Submitted on Oct 25, 2011
3 Comments
Thank you, that was indeed helpful.
Wow, I never suspected that it is a Psyllid bug because most of the species that I've seen are those "hairy" mealybugs.
Here is another one from spain http://www.flickr.com/photos/10770266@N0...
Hello ChunXingWong
I love your photos and your interest in bugs.
This is a bug (Class;insecta Order;Hemiptera suborder;Sternorrhyncha,)
It is a psyllid bug and seems to have six legs and a central proboscis which it uses to suck juices from plants, as all bugs do.
Psyllids exhibit sexual dimorphism with males usually looking very different and having wings. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgg310/6101... Many psyllid (females) form galls on plants and live their whole lives inside. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/66925960@N0... but yours is freely mobile. See http://images.ask.com/fr?q=Eriococcidae&....