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A unusual scale bug with a very flat body. About 10mm in diameter. This orange-colored insect is a Paralecanium species. Only the female of this scale insect does not look very insect-like because they are limbless and have limited movement so they spend most of their time stuck on the leaf sucking the host tree's phloem sap. You can see it's tiny eyes in photo 1. Photo 4 shows it's underside.
Found it on a tree leaf along the canopy bridge in Bukit Gemuk (Fat Hill), Tawau, Sabah.
>>>Map accuracy: 1000m diameter. Fun facts: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/print-version/?p=/n... I showed Dan this bug and he did not believe it is an insect. I am also not confident that it is a scale bug until I zoomed in my pictures and saw it's tiny eyes!
Spotted on Jan 20, 2014
Submitted on Feb 19, 2014
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