Margarodes

Margarodes
Pencil drawing of Margarodes
Illustration of Margarodes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Sternorrhyncha
Family: Margarodidae
Genus: Margarodes
Guilding, 1828
Species

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Synonyms

Sphaeraspis Giard, 1894

Margarodes is a genus of scale insects 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.

Species

Former species

Scale

Moths

References

  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.