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- ↑ Foldi, Imre (2005). "Ground pearls: a generic revision of the Margarodidae sensu stricto (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea)" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. New Series. 41 (1): 81–125. doi:10.1080/00379271.2005.10697442. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 May 2012.
- ↑ MacGillivray, Alexander Dyer (1921). The Coccidae: tables for the identification of the subfamilies and some of the more important genera and species, together with discussions of their anatomy and life history. Urbana, Illinois: Scarab Company. p. 89.
- ↑ Hoffman, Elizabeth & Smith, Robert L. (1991). "Emergence and dispersal of Margarodes meridionalis (Homoptera: Coccoidea) in hybrid bermudagrass". Journal of Economic Entomology. 84 (6): 1668–1671. doi:10.1093/jee/84.6.1668.
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