Neomargarodes Green

Watson, Gillian W., 2022, Towards identification of the scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) of continental Africa: 2. Checklists and keys to six archaeococcoid families, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 301-356 : 313

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6343177
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scientific name	Neomargarodes Green
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Genus Neomargarodes Green View in CoL View at ENA

Neomargarodes View in CoL is a genus of 16 species, six of which have been recorded from continental Africa. Neomargarodes erythrocephalus View in CoL is known only from the male ( Foldi 1999; García Morales et al. 2016). The only available keys covering any of the species recorded from Africa are in Tang and Hao (1995), Tang (2000, in Chinese) and Borchsenius (1950, in Russian).

Key to adult females of some species of Neomargarodes View in CoL found in Africa, based on Tang and Hao (1995)

1(0) Anterior claw with a heel, making it T-shaped; heel bowed posteriorly. Base of claw not produced.......... trabuti View in CoL ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 )

- Anterior claw without a heel, making it Γ-shaped. Base of claw produced anteriorly as a globule............... aristidae View in CoL

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Margarodidae