Image Number: 5445576

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Adult(s)
Description:
Magnolia scales being tended by ants (Tetramorium caespitum); white-colored scales are dead and some of those contain larvae of Ocyptamus costatus. 
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Field

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Subject

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Vespoidea
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Tetramorium
Subject: Tetramorium caespitum (Linnaeus)

Host

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Infraclass: Neoptera
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Superfamily: Coccoidea
Family: Coccidae
Subfamily: Myzolecaniinae
Tribe: Myzolecaniini
Genus: Neolecanium
Subject: Neolecanium cornuparvum (Thro)
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Image uploaded:
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Image last updated:
Thursday, January 9, 2014