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Tanyscelis sp.
Scale gall tubes (males) on eucalyptus leaves. 3mm tall. Resembling miniature exploded fireworks.
Outer subrban eucalyptus... probably E microcarpa (Grey box)
No creatures seen in immediate vicinty. Vacated?
Thanks Penelope Mills for suggestions.
Back to where I started :-)
yet to work through this http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
Might be galls of males from the gall-inducing scale insect genus Tanyscelis
Although these do resemble the male galls of Apiomorpha, the shape of the galls suggest that they could also belong to another genus of gall-inducing scale insect.
I am a recent convert to gall insects and they are very complex
I think these are Gall-inducing Scale Insect (Eriococcidae).
The dry ones are last years crop. They can be very sexually dimorphic - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/783.... That would suggest that these are males and they have left to find girlfriends. Females look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/66925960@N0... and remain wingless. You spotted a similar gall (wasp) but these are hamipterans (bugs).
Spotted on Dec 15, 2011
Submitted on Dec 16, 2011
