Dimargarodes Silvestri

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 : 308

Genus Dimargarodes Silvestri

Dimargarodes is a genus of 3 species, only one of which occurs in Africa. Dimargarodes tanganyicus ( Fig. 2 ) was described from Tanzania on an unidentified host; it is of no economic significance.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Margarodidae, morphology of adult female; Dimargarodes tanganyicus Jakubski from Vahedi & Hodgson (2007: 32, Fig. 3), reproduced with permission © Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, U.K.