EPPO Global Database

Dimargarodes meridionalis(MARGME)

Hosts

Important note about the classification of host plants in GD:
Categories have been assigned by the EPPO Secretariat on the basis of available data at the time of entry. They correspond to a qualitative evaluation of the importance of the host plant for the pest concerned and remain indicative only.
Further explanation of categories is available in the guide.
Organism Type
Eremochloa ophiuroides (ERLOP) Major host
* Dale A (2017) Managing scale insects and mealybugs on turfgrass. NY-340. Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date February 2017. Reviewed June 2020. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 8 pp.

* Gill RJ (2022) 3.3.1 centipede grass ground pearl Dimargarodes meridionalis (Morrison, 1927) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Margarodidae). p. 62-64 In: Chapter 3 Margarodidae. Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests (eds. Kondo T, Watson GW). CABI Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK. 608 pp.
Cynodon dactylon (CYNDA) Host
* Dale A (2017) Managing scale insects and mealybugs on turfgrass. NY-340. Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date February 2017. Reviewed June 2020. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 8 pp.
------- as bermudagrass

* Gill RJ (2022) 3.3.1 centipede grass ground pearl Dimargarodes meridionalis (Morrison, 1927) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Margarodidae). p. 62-64 In: Chapter 3 Margarodidae. Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests (eds. Kondo T, Watson GW). CABI Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK. 608 pp.
Stenotaphrum secundatum (STPSE) Host
* Dale A (2017) Managing scale insects and mealybugs on turfgrass. NY-340. Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date February 2017. Reviewed June 2020. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 8 pp.
------- as St Augustine grass

* Gill RJ (2022) 3.3.1 centipede grass ground pearl Dimargarodes meridionalis (Morrison, 1927) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Margarodidae). p. 62-64 In: Chapter 3 Margarodidae. Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests (eds. Kondo T, Watson GW). CABI Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK. 608 pp.
Vitis vinifera (VITVI) Host
* Gill RJ (2022) 3.3.1 centipede grass ground pearl Dimargarodes meridionalis (Morrison, 1927) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Margarodidae). p. 62-64 In: Chapter 3 Margarodidae. Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests (eds. Kondo T, Watson GW). CABI Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK. 608 pp.
------- in Imperial Valley of California (USA), recorded feeding on Vitis vinifera, cysts found on grape rootlets
Zoysia sp. (ZOYSS) Host
* Dale A (2017) Managing scale insects and mealybugs on turfgrass. NY-340. Department of Entomology and Nematology, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date February 2017. Reviewed June 2020. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 8 pp.

* Gill RJ (2022) 3.3.1 centipede grass ground pearl Dimargarodes meridionalis (Morrison, 1927) (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Margarodidae). p. 62-64 In: Chapter 3 Margarodidae. Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests (eds. Kondo T, Watson GW). CABI Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK. 608 pp.