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Family Psyllidae
- This page contains pictures and information about White Fibrous Lerp Insects that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Diameter 6mm
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- The nymphs live and feed beneath the lerp and
are protected by the lerps. The lerps are made from starch, derived from the
plant sap. The adults looking like a small treehopper, are without lerps. They
have the strong hind legs, they can jump and fly.
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- Those White Fibrous Lerp Insects are common on
Eucalyptus.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 449.
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