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Icerya seychellarum
approx. 5mm
found on leaf in garden surrounded by secondary jungle at approx. 1370m asl
Hemiptera; Monophlebidae
Spotted on Dec 23, 2019
Submitted on Dec 31, 2019
2 Comments
@Mark Ridgway... according to a study paper (link below)... "Icerya seychellarum was described by Westwood (1855) from the Seychelles"
ref: https://bioone.org/journals/African-Ento...
An interesting one. I wonder if they were originally only in the Seychelles.