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Oil palm, scale, PNG

June 2008. A scale insect found on oil palm leaflets, sent from Papua New Guinea for identification. They are on oil palm leaflets, regularly attended by ants.

It was identified as a margarodid scale insect, probably a species of Icerya, possibly I seychellarum.