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- Title
An annotated checklist of the scale insects of Iran (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Coccoidea) with new records and distribution data.
- Authors
Moghaddam, Masumeh
- Abstract
A list of scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea) of Iran is present based mainly on the literature records since 1902. In total, 13 families and 275 species have been recorded and these are listed along with their locality data and host plants. The families are as follows: Asterolecaniidae, Cerococcidae, Coccidae, Diaspididae, Eriococcidae, Kermesidae, Margarodidae, Monophlebidae, Ortheziidae, Phoenicococcidae, Pseudococcidae, Putoidae and Rhizoecidae. The following ten species are recorded for the first time from Iran: Diaspidiotus lenticularis (Lindinger), D. wuenni (Lindinger), Fiorinia proboscidaria Green, Koroneaspis lonicerae Borchsenius, Eriococcus cingulatus Kiritchenko, E. pamiricus (Bazarov), E. reynei Schmutterer, E. sanguinairensis Goux and E. saxidesertus (Borchsenius) and Porphyrophora victoriae Jashenko.
- Subjects
IRAN; SCALE insects; KERMESIDAE; CEROCOCCIDAE; COCCIDAE
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2013, Issue 334, p1
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.334.5818