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This page contains pictures and information about Large Mealybugs in family Margarodidae
that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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Margarodidae is regarded as the primitive family in superfamily Coccoidea. They are usually known
as Mealy bugs or Large Mealybugs. Most Australian Margarodidae are endemic.They are sap-sucker, feed in the same way as aphids and scale insects.
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Mealybugs are, of course, relatively large in size. Females are wingless with
body length from 10 to 40mm. Their bodies are flat and clearly segmented.
Matured female usually covered with waxy excretions of white powdery
substance. They seldom move or move very slowly although
they have well developed legs.
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- Males are
usually smaller in size and
winged.
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- Bird of Paradise Flies - Violet Phoenix
 
 - Callipappus australisbody length winged male 10mm, wingless female 40mm,
1st instars
- As a member in the Mealy Bugs family, Bird of Paradise Fly is unbelievable
large. Females grow up
to 40mm, the largest in Soft Bug suborder. Bird of Paradise Fly is an incredible insect. It
Adult males have only one pair of wings. When we first it we thought it could be
a fly in order Diptera. After we saw
the female and we were
confused. We cannot tell even the order of this insect. More information and
pictures on Bird of Paradise Fly please click this
page.
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- Bird of Paradise Flies - Silver Phoenix
  - Callipappus farinosus, body length winged male 10mm, wingless female 40mm
- After visiting our web page Bird of Paradise
Fly (Violet Phoenix), Margaret sent us emails and photos, telling us that
there is the similar interesting insect in Western Australia. Here we would
like to thank Margaret for premising us to put the pictures and information in
this web page.
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- Cotton Cushion Scale, Australian mealybug, Fluted
scale
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- Icerya purchasi, dia 6mm, matured female, young female, nymph
- The pictures show the matured female cottony cushion scale. The white cottony
substance is her egg sac. Males are rare and females usually reproduce without
mating. Newly hatched nymphs are red with dark legs and antennae. More pictures
and information can be found in this page.
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Gum Cushion Scale
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- Icerya sp., dia 6mm,
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This
Cushion Scale look similar to the above Cotton Cushion Scale but found on Eucalyptus
instead of Acacia.
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- Snow Ball Large Mealy Bug
  - Monophlebulus sp., length 5-20mm
- The snowy white balls on stem are different in
size, the largest in size is about 20mm. When we removed the white substance
we saw the orange-red and blue mealy bug body. More pictures and information
please find in this page.
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- Acacia Mealy Bug
 - ? Auloicerya acaciae, body
length 3mm
- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 459.
- 2. Species
Auloicerya acaciae Morrison & Morrison, 1923 - Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory.
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Unknown
Large Mealybug 1
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sp., body length 10mm
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Unknown
Large Mealybug 2
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sp., body length 10mm
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Unknown
Large Mealybug
3
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sp., body length 10mm
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Unknown
Large Mealybug
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- ? sp., 15mm dia.
- We found this pink thing on a burnt tree trunk in Karawatha Forest during
later summer Feb 2008. Its body was soft. Turned it over we saw three pairs
of leg so it should be an insect. We believed it is in the bug order Hemiptera
but do not known which family. Please email
us if you know anything about this bug.
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Unknown
Large Mealybug
5
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sp., body length 10mm
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p 459.
- 2. Family MARGARODIDAE
- Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory.
- 3. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926,
p173.
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