The scale insect genus ''Margarodes'' is a group in the family

Margarodidae The Margarodidae (illegitimately as Margodidae) or ground pearls are a family of scale insects within the superfamily Coccoidea. Members of the family include the Polish cochineal and Armenian cochineal (genus ''Porphyrophora'') and the original ...

. The

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

is ''Margarodes formicarum''. The genus was erected in 1828 by

Lansdown Guilding Lansdown Guilding (9 May 1797 – 22 October 1831) was a theologian and naturalist. He is best known for his works on the flora and fauna of St Vincent in particular and on the Caribbean in general. He wrote numerous illustrated papers for journal ...

who found these waxy "pearls" in the soil on the island of

Bahama The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the arch ...

, associated with ants, and named a species ''Margarodes formicarum''.

Species

* ''Margarodes aurelianus'' Hall, 1945 * ''Margarodes australis'' Jakubski, 1965 * ''Margarodes basrahensis'' Jakubski, 1965 * ''Margarodes capensis'' Giard, 1897 * ''Margarodes carvalhoi'' Costa, 1950 * ''Margarodes chukar'' La, 1967 * ''Margarodes congolensis'' Jakubski, 1965 * ''Margarodes dactyloides'' McDaniel, 1966 * ''Margarodes floridanus'' Jakubski, 1965 * ''Margarodes formicarum'' Guilding, 1829 * ''Margarodes gallicus'' Signoret, 1876 * ''Margarodes gimenezi'' Podtiaguin, 1941 * ''Margarodes greeni'' Brain, 1915 * ''Margarodes morrisoni'' McDaniel, 1965 * ''Margarodes newsteadi'' Brain, 1915 * ''Margarodes papillosus'' Green, 1912 * ''Margarodes paulistus'' Silvestri, 1939 * ''Margarodes peringueyi'' Brain, 1915 * ''Margarodes perrisii'' Signoret, 1876 * ''Margarodes prieskaensis'' Jakubski, 1965 * ''Margarodes rileyi'' Giard, 1897 * ''Margarodes ruber'' Brain, 1915 * ''Margarodes salisburiensis'' Hall, 1940 * ''Margarodes similis'' Morrison, 1924 * ''Margarodes sinensis'' Silvestri, 1938 * ''Margarodes trimeni'' Giard, 1897 * ''Margarodes upingtonensis'' De, 1983 * ''Margarodes vitis'' Philippi, 1884 * ''Margarodes vredendalensis'' De, 1983 * ''Margarodes williamsi'' Jakubski, 1965

Former species

Scale

* ''Margarodes hameli'' Cockerell, 1902 now ''

Porphyrophora hamelii The Armenian cochineal (''Porphyrophora hamelii''), also known as the Ararat cochineal or Ararat scale, is a scale insect indigenous to the Ararat plain and Aras (Araks) River valley in the Armenian Highlands and in Turkey. It was formerly u ...

'' * ''Margarodes meridionalis'' Morrison, 1927 now '' Dimargarodes meridionalis'' * ''Margarodes polonicus'' Cockerell, 1902 now '' Porphyrophora polonica''

Moths

* ''Margarodes beryllalis'' (''Margarodes beryttalis'') Guenée, 1854 now ''

Stemorrhages sericea ''Stemorrhages sericea'', the large emerald pearl, is a moth of the subfamily of Spilomelinae within the family Crambidae. It lives throughout Africa south of the Sahara, and the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Com ...

'' * ''Margarodes exaula'' Meyrick, 1888 now '' Stemorrhages exaula'' * ''Margarodes indica'' now ''

Diaphania indica ''Diaphania indica'', the cucumber moth or cotton caterpillar, is a widespread but mainly Old World moth species. It belongs to the grass moth family, and therein to the large subfamily Spilomelinae. This moth occurs in many tropical and sub ...

'' * ''Margarodes nigropunctalis'' Bremer, 1864 now '' Palpita nigropunctalis'' * ''Margarodes sericeolalis'' Guenée, 1862 now ''

References

Endemic fauna of the Bahamas Margarodidae Sternorrhyncha genera {{Coccoidea-stub