Chaetophyes compacta (Tube spittlebug)


Family Clastopteridae (or Machaerotidae). Immatures construct and live inside elongate, conical calcareous tubes attached to thin eucalypt stems. Adults are free-living and will actively jump and fly.


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Adult male
Nymph stage
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