Lepidosaphes belutchistana Balachowsky

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 : 33

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Lepidosaphes belutchistana Balachowsky
status

 

Lepidosaphes belutchistana Balachowsky

Lepidosaphes belutchistanus Balachowsky, 1954: 75-77. Mytilaspis belutchistanus Borchsenius, 1963.

Iran localities.

Hormozgan, Sistan & Balouchestan, Kerman.

Host plants.

Acanthaceae : Avicenniae officinalis ; Arecaceae : Nannorrhops ritchiana ; Apocynaceae : Nerium oleander , Periploca aphylla ; Fabaceae : Acacia sp., Prosopis spicigera .

References.

Balachowsky (1954), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Kaussari (1955, 1964), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Takagi and Moghaddam (2005) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

These are the first records of Lepidosaphes belutchistana from the plant families Acanthaceae and Arecaceae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Diaspididae

Genus

Lepidosaphes