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Margarodes
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Margarodes

Guilding, 1828
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Synonyms

Sphaeraspis Giard, 1894[1]

Pencil drawing of margarodes
Illustration of Margarodes

The scale insect genus Margarodes is a group in the family Margarodidae. The type species is Margarodes formicarum. The genus was erected in 1828 by Lansdown Guilding who found these waxy "pearls" in the soil on the island of Bahama, associated with ants, and named a species Margarodes formicarum.[2]

Species

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  • Margarodes aurelianus Hall, 1945
  • Margarodes australis Jakubski, 1965
  • Margarodes basrahensis Jakubski, 1965
  • Margarodes capensis Giard, 1897
  • Margarodes carvalhoi Costa, 1950
  • Margarodes chukar La, 1967
  • Margarodes congolensis Jakubski, 1965
  • Margarodes dactyloides McDaniel, 1966
  • Margarodes floridanus Jakubski, 1965
  • Margarodes formicarum Guilding, 1829
  • Margarodes gallicus Signoret, 1876
  • Margarodes gimenezi Podtiaguin, 1941
  • Margarodes greeni Brain, 1915
  • Margarodes morrisoni McDaniel, 1965
  • Margarodes newsteadi Brain, 1915
  • Margarodes papillosus Green, 1912
  • Margarodes paulistus Silvestri, 1939
  • Margarodes peringueyi Brain, 1915
  • Margarodes perrisii Signoret, 1876
  • Margarodes prieskaensis Jakubski, 1965
  • Margarodes rileyi Giard, 1897
  • Margarodes ruber Brain, 1915
  • Margarodes salisburiensis Hall, 1940
  • Margarodes similis Morrison, 1924
  • Margarodes sinensis Silvestri, 1938
  • Margarodes trimeni Giard, 1897
  • Margarodes upingtonensis De, 1983
  • Margarodes vitis Philippi, 1884
  • Margarodes vredendalensis De, 1983
  • Margarodes williamsi Jakubski, 1965

Former species

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References

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  1. ^ Foldi, Imre (2005). "Ground pearls: a generic revision of the Margarodidae sensu stricto (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea)" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. New Series. 41 (1): 81–125. doi:10.1080/00379271.2005.10697442. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 May 2012.
  2. ^ MacGillivray, Alexander Dyer (1921). The Coccidae: tables for the identification of the subfamilies and some of the more important genera and species, together with discussions of their anatomy and life history. Urbana, Illinois: Scarab Company. p. 89.
  3. ^ Hoffman, Elizabeth & Smith, Robert L. (1991). "Emergence and dispersal of Margarodes meridionalis (Homoptera: Coccoidea) in hybrid bermudagrass". Journal of Economic Entomology. 84 (6): 1668–1671. doi:10.1093/jee/84.6.1668.