Neomargarodes niger ( Green, 1912 )

Zheng, Xinyi & Wu, San’An, 2024, A review of the Margarodidae sensu stricto (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) in China, with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 5506 (4), pp. 451-500 : 476

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scientific name	Neomargarodes niger ( Green, 1912 )
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Neomargarodes niger ( Green, 1912) View in CoL

Margarodes niger Green, 1912: 75 View in CoL . Type data: INDIA: Madras [= Tamil Nadu], Bellary District, in soil with egg cocoons of grasshoppers. Syntypes, immature, Type depository: the Natural History Museum, London, UK .

Neomargarodes niger (Green) View in CoL , Morrison 1928: 77, change of combination.

Host plants: Alhagi maurorum Medik. , Arachis hypogaea L. ( Fabaceae ); Cynodon dactylon (L.) Persoon ( Poaceae ) ( García Morales et al. 2016).

Distribution: China (Yunnan), India, Pakistan.

Remarks: Neomargarodes niger was reported from Yunnan province on unknown perennial grass on a dry hill top by Ferris (1950); however, both Jakubski (1965) and Jikun Yang (1979) doubted the identification. Specimens of this species have not been seen in this study.