Targionia porifera (Borchsenius)

Moghaddam, Masumeh, 2013, An annotated checklist of the scale insects of Iran (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Coccoidea) with new records and distribution data, ZooKeys 334, pp. 1-92 : 48

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.334.5818

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scientific name

Targionia porifera (Borchsenius)
status

 

Targionia porifera (Borchsenius)

Rhizaspidiotus porifera Borchsenius, 1949a: 350. Fisanotargionia quadrilobata Kaussari & Balachowsky, 1953.

Iran localities.

Esfahan, Fars, Hormozgan, Kerman, Yazd.

Host plants.

Amaranthaceae : Anabasis sp., Seidlitzia schweinfurthii ; Asteraceae : Artemisia sp.; Zygophyllaceae : Zygophyllum eurypeterum .

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari and Balachowsky (1953), Kaussari (1957, 1964, 1970), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Note.

These are the first records of Targionia porifera from the plant families Amaranthaceae and Asteraceae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Diaspididae

Genus

Targionia