EPPO Global Database

Eumargarodes laingi(EUMGLA)

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
Saccharum officinarum (SACOF) Major host
* Allsopp PG, McGill NG, Stringer JK (2000) Host-plant resistance in sugarcane to pink ground pearls, Eumargarodes laingi Jakubski (Hemiptera: Margarodidae): Confirmation and further screening of clones. Australian Journal of Entomology 39, 316-321.
Bouteloua dactyloides (BUCDA) Host
* McDaniel B (1966) A new species of the genus Margarodes Guilding from Buffalo-grass in Texas (Coccoidea, Margarodidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 68, 237-240.
------- as Margarodes dactyloides
Cynodon sp. (CYNSS) Host
* Beehag G, Kaapro J, Manners A (2016) Pest Management of Turfgrass for Sport and Recreation. Csiro Publishing, Australia.

* 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.

Eremochloa ophiuroides (ERLOP) Host
* 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.

Stenotaphrum secundatum (STPSE) Host
* 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.
Zoysia sp. (ZOYSS) Host
* Beehag G, Kaapro J, Manners A (2016) Pest Management of Turfgrass for Sport and Recreation. Csiro Publishing, Australia.

* 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.