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Shrubland

Coprosma shrubland, Birdlings Flat, Christchurch

Coprosma shrubland, Birdlings Flat, Christchurch

Shrubland, mainly Coprosma or Hebe

There are two different soft scale insects here:

<em>Aphenochiton inconspicuus</em> - two adult females on a stem of a Coprosma sp. at Birdlings Flat, near Christchurch.

Aphenochiton inconspicuus (Maskell)

Inconspicuous scale

<em>Aphenochiton pronus</em>. Adult females [greenish-yellow] and an empty male test [cover], on Hebe pauciramosa leaves.

Aphenochiton pronus Henderson & Hodgson

Prostrate scale