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Cryptes Baccatus

White Tick Scale. Found on a Black Wattletree

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    White tick scale, lots on my Black Wattle tree Posted 5 years ago
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    Welcome to JungleDragon! Posted 5 years ago

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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
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Uploaded Sep 24, 2019. Captured Sep 23, 2019 12:52 in 26 Surf Parade, Inverloch VIC 3996, Australia.
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  • iPhone 6
  • f/2.2
  • 1/293s
  • ISO32
  • 4.15mm