Landcare Research - Manaaki Whenua

Landcare-Research -Manaaki Whenua

Podocarps

Rimu, Waitakere ranges. Image - Fiona Henderson

Rimu, Waitakere ranges. Image - Fiona Henderson

On podocarps, mainly rimu and tōtara

There are four different soft scale insects here:

<em>Crystallotesta ornata</em>. Left: a young adult female. Right: a mature female; both are facing down the twig.

Crystallotesta ornata (Maskell)

Ornate scale
<em>Poropeza dacrydii</em>. Left: 3rd-instar female (yellow) and young adult female (reddish colour), on the underside of bark taken from a totara tree. Right: mature female with a crawler (orangey colour) walking over her.

Poropeza dacrydii (Maskell)

Rimu scale
<em>Umbonichiton adelus</em>. Young adult female.

Umbonichiton adelus Henderson & Hodgson

Obscure tōtara scale
<em>Umbonichiton pellaspis</em>. Young adult female.

Umbonichiton pellaspis Henderson & Hodgson

Snakeskin scale