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Trabutina
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Trabutina

Trabutina is a genus of "blue-green" mealybugs, containing five species: T. crassispinosa, T. elastica, T. mannipara, T. serpentina, and T. tenax. This genus of scale insects feeds solely on plants of the genus Tamarix. Its type species is T. mannipara.

Trabutina insects produce a sweet excretion which is used as a food in Israel and Iraq. Polyrhachis simplex, a species of weaver ants, also feeds on the sugary secretions.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Manna Scale-insect

speciesTrabutina mannipara

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 60942.