centipede grass ground pearl

Dimargarodes meridionalis

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Margarodidae

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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

DescriptionMargarodes, Wikipedia contributors

centipede grass ground pearl

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