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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.
30 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Grape Ground Pearl
speciesMargarodes vitis
Margarodes aurelianus
speciesMargarodes aurelianus
Margarodes australis
speciesMargarodes australis
Margarodes capensis
speciesMargarodes capensis
Margarodes dactyloides
speciesMargarodes dactyloides
Ground Pearl
speciesMargarodes formicarum
Margarodes rileyi
speciesMargarodes rileyi
Margarodes greeni
speciesMargarodes greeni
Margarodes morrisoni
speciesMargarodes morrisoni
Margarodes newsteadi
speciesMargarodes newsteadi
Margarodes paulistus
speciesMargarodes paulistus
Northen Cape Ground Pearl
speciesMargarodes prieskaensis
Margarodes ruber
speciesMargarodes ruber
Margarodes trimeni
speciesMargarodes trimeni
Margarodes vredendalensis
speciesMargarodes vredendalensis
Margarodes williamsi
speciesMargarodes williamsi
Margarodes perrisii
speciesMargarodes perrisii
Margarodes salisburiensis
speciesMargarodes salisburiensis
Margarodes carvalhoi
speciesMargarodes carvalhoi
Margarodes sinensis
speciesMargarodes sinensis
Margarodes peringueyi
speciesMargarodes peringueyi
Margarodes upingtonensis
speciesMargarodes upingtonensis
Margarodes gimenezi
speciesMargarodes gimenezi
Margarodes basrahensis
speciesMargarodes basrahensis
Margarodes chukar
speciesMargarodes chukar
Margarodes floridanus
speciesMargarodes floridanus
Margarodes similis
speciesMargarodes similis
Margarodes congolensis
speciesMargarodes congolensis
Margarodes gallicus
speciesMargarodes gallicus
Margarodes papillosus
speciesMargarodes papillosus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 330974.