Margarodesia Foldi

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:187B04D7-4C35-4E27-9B2D-A616BF59F380

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6343175

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D687D0-FFAA-9856-19E8-CF13FC72E4D0

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Margarodesia Foldi
status

 

Genus Margarodesia Foldi View in CoL

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Margarodidae

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