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* 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.

* Anonymous (1951). Unusual grass scale reported from the south. Cooperative Economic Insect Report 1, special report 1. p. 61.
------- Pensacola area (Florida), damaging especially on centipede and St Augustine grasses.

* Chong JH (2022) 3.3.2 Pink ground pearl Eumargarodes laingi Jakubski 1950 (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.

* Tsai JH, Kirsch OH (1978) Bionomics of Haplaxius crudus (Homoptera: Cixiidae). Environmental Entomology 7(2), 305-308.
------- Nymph host.

* University of Florida. IFAS Extension (2019) Mosaic disease of St. Augustinegrass caused by sugarcane mosaic virus. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PP313

* Tran NT, Teo AC, McTaggart AR, Campbell PR, Persley DM, Thomas JE, Geering AD (2025) Origins and Distribution of Panicum Mosaic Virus and Sugarcane Mosaic Virus on Stenotaphrum secundatum in Australia. Phytopathology (early view) https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-11-24-0363-R

* Montezano DG, Specht A, Sosa-Gomez DR, Roque-Specht VF & de Barros NM (2014) Immature stages of Spodoptera eridania (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): developmental parameters and host plants. Journal of Insect Science 14, 238. https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieu286

* Montezano DG, Specht A, Sosa-Gómez DR, Roque-Specht VF, Sousa-Silva JC, Paula-Moraes SV, Peterson JA, Hunt T (2018) Host plants of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the Americas. African Entomology 26, 286-300.

* Lima A, Valada T, Caetano MF, Franco JC, Ramos AP (2021) First record of the lawn chinch bug Blissus insularis Barber (Hemiptera: Blissidae) in Europe. Phytoparasitica  49, 539–545.

* Reinert JA, Chandra A, Engelke MC (2011) Susceptibility of genera and cultivars of turfgrass to southern chinch bug Blissus insularis (Hemiptera: Blissidae). Florida Entomologist 94(2), 158-163. https://doi.org/10.1653/024.094.0206