The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago Mifsud, David Mazzeo, Gaetana Russo, Agatino Watson, Gillian W. Zootaxa 2014 2014-09-25 3866 4 499 525 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.