Help me in identifying these weird pests on my lemon plant

[lsardana]

I haven't seen them before. Couldn't find them on google either. Please help me in identifying and finding a treatment for it.

 

[Marck]

It looks like a bad case of Photoshop to me.

 

[lsardana]

It's not. It 100% genuine pic. I clicked it myself.

 

[Marck]

Could you go in closer and take a few tight macro shots from different angles?

 

[lsardana]

These are all the pics I was able to click during the day. After that I sprayed the plant with neem oil solution. I can update you about the further status tomorrow morning.

 

[Marck]

Even tighter, I want a close-up of a single one of those squiggly things on top of the leaf.

 

[lsardana]

I can check that tomorrow morning. It's night time in my region.

 

[Marck]

Sounds good.

 

[lsardana]

Those creatures are gone after the spray. But have left their poop/eggs behind.

 

[Marck]

If this is real, they look like eggs, not frass (poop). I would remove the leaf and put it in a jar with air holes. if they hatch into more 'insects' or whatever, take some sharp close-up macro pics. Those things on top of the leaf did not seem to have legs in the right number or position to be insects, or any other type of arthropod either.

 

[lsardana]

sounds like we are looking at some alien insects

 

[Marck]

With some imagination, I could say that some of those shapes on the upper leaf look like they might each have a green abdomen, no wings and a long thorax similar to a snakefly (Raphidioptera), but the twisted and odd-numbered things that could be legs don't look right at all.

The eggs are odd too. I have seen insect eggs laid in rows on leaves, but never ones quite like that. Frankly, they look like chocolate chips.

 

[Chuck]

Not being from India I cannot say with 100% certainty the exact name of what you are showing. In the first picture it shows a row of eggs which are from a type of leaf footed insect. The insects shown appear to be an instar of a parasitic wasp. The eggs are bad, the insects are good. Overall, I would not worry about the eggs or the insects as you have probably killed both with the Neem. However, you do have a serious problem with the nutrition of your plant. It is severely lacking in magnesium and/or manganese and probably nitrogen as well as evidenced by the green veins and yellow leaves shown in all of the pictures. This will greatly affect the production of your plant.

 

[Marck]

Those squiggles on the leaf are inconsistently shaped, with forms that do not even resemble anatomical structures.

 

[Chuck]

Those squiggles on the leaf are inconsistently shaped, with forms that do not even resemble anatomical structures.

I can see head, thorax, abdomen and legs. All are the same. Check out Pelecinid Wasp. I couldn't find images from Indian species but the American species is strikingly similar to the 0P images.