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from inside a sheltered psyllid nymph
A solitary endoparasite, these wasps have two layers of protection as they develop: the body of the nymph, and the thin, sugary cap that it lives beneath - the ‘lerp’.
Psyllaephagus.
[host - Hyalinaspis: APHALARIDAE, an hemipteran]
[full details in Paul’s 2018 blog ‘Life on a leaf’]