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Family: Psyllidae
A small insect about 10mm long, all orange except for red centres in the eyes and dark spats; longish delicate antennae; long an delicate, very clear wings extending well beyond the abdomen.
On the margin of a national park with mainly low eucalyptus and acacia. This one sitting on a pale, broad eucalyptus leaf.
In searching for an ID the main stumbling block for this one is the rounded abdomen. All other images for species show tapering. Full ID is still unknown. Possibly Schedotrioza sp. ( refer http://www.psyllids.org/psyllidsPacific.... ) also martinl's spotting http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/144...
Spotted on Sep 18, 2012
Submitted on Sep 20, 2012
4 Comments
That's an interesting link martin... " I have now surveyed all the psyllid taxonomic groups in the Hawaiian Islands" !!! Thanks for that. I'll update this soon.
Here's the link but I think you have seen it before. http://www.psyllids.org/psyllidsPacific....
Check my next spotting of the same critter.
Thanks for that martin. No wonder it didn't look like anything else I've snapped.
This is an adult of one of the very many the psyllids that we find inside some galls or under lerps. (a soft bug) There's a few of them around this week. These are the ones that sing =) http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/880...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/866...