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
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
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
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