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Margarodes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Coccoidea

Scientific name
  
Margarodes

Higher classification
  
Margarodidae

Order
  
True bugs

Suborder
  
Sternorrhyncha

Family
  
Margarodidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Insect, Margarodidae, Scale insect, True bugs, Anthonomus signatus

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.

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Species

  • 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

    • Scale

  • Margarodes hameli Cockerell, 1902 now Porphyrophora hamelii
  • Margarodes meridionalis Morrison, 1927 now Dimargarodes meridionalis
  • Margarodes polonicus Cockerell, 1902 now Porphyrophora polonica

    • Moths

  • Margarodes beryllalis (Margarodes beryttalis) Guenée, 1854 now Stemorrhages sericea
  • Margarodes exaula Meyrick, 1888 now Stemorrhages exaula
  • Margarodes indica now Diaphania indica
  • Margarodes nigropunctalis Bremer, 1864 now Palpita nigropunctalis
  • Margarodes sericeolalis Guenée, 1862 now Stemorrhages sericea

    • References

    Margarodes Wikipedia
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