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Wattle Tick Scale - Cryptes baccatus

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The Wattle Tick Scale

Cryptes baccatus (Maskell, 1892), or the "Wattle Tick Scale" is a scale insect know from Australia. It is quite unusual looking with a tick-like enlarged body sticking up from te substrate and blocking the sucking head from sight.

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Similar species: True Bugs
Species identified by Ernst
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Uploaded Mar 22, 2022. Captured Mar 22, 2022 13:58 in 6 Jagger Rd, Encounter Bay SA 5211, Australia.
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  • Canon EOS 700D
  • f/14.0
  • 1/83s
  • ISO800
  • 84mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.