The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago
Mifsud, David
Mazzeo, Gaetana
Russo, Agatino
Watson, Gillian W.
Zootaxa
2014
2014-09-25
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3669V
(Silvestri, 1908)
Silvestri
1908
[151,683,478,503]
Insecta
Margarodidae
Dimargarodes
Animalia
Hemiptera
15
514
Arthropoda
species
mediterraneus
Borg (1932)recorded this species (as Margarodes mediterraneusSilvestri) as being “frequent on the rhizomes of couch-grass ( Cynodon dactylon) in many localities in Maltaand probably also in Gozo”. No Maltese specimens have been seen during the present work.