Margarodesia Foldi

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Genus Margarodesia Foldi

Margarodesia is an African genus. The only species, M. desmieri ( Fig. 7 ), is a pest that feeds on the roots of Elaeis guineensis in Ivory Coast; it may transmit plant pathogens ( Foldi 1981).

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FIGURE 7. Margarodesia desmieri Foldi, adult female, from Foldi (2005a: 103, Fig. 10), reproduced with permission from Annales de la Société entomologique de France. A: antenna.