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Heteromargarodes chukar (La Rivers, 1967) (Margarodidae: Heteromargarodes)

Margarodes chukar La Rivers 1967: 4. Type data: U.S.A.: Nevada, Washoe County, Red Rock area 20 miles NNW of Reno, in the crop of Alectoris graeca on Bromus tectorum; collected 26 September 1964 by David Savage and Laun Buoy.. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Sacramento: California State Collection of Arthropods, California Dept. Food & Agriculture, California, USA; accepted valid name
Heteromargarodes chukar (La Rivers, 1967); Unruh & Gullan 2007: 175. change of combination

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 2

Systematics: Ray Gill, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA, found five syntypes of this species, in the collection of CDAE (see Unruh & Gullan, 2007 ). These specimens were slide mounted by Dick Wilkey, shortly after they were collected. (Ray Gill, personal communication to Yair Ben-Dov, 23 October, 2002).
Biology: All specimens of type series came from crops of the Chukar Partridge (Alectoris graeca), and while none of them were found with the host plant, the overwhelmingly dominant grass in the type locality was Cheat Grass (Bromus tectorum), parts of which were also in the crops with the insects (La Rivers, 1967).
General Remarks: Description and illustration of adult female by La Rivers (1967) and by Unruh & Gullan (2007). Description and illustration of adult male by Hodgson & Foldi (2006).