Mercetaspis halli (Green)

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 : 37

Mercetaspis halli (Green)

Lepidosaphes (Coccomytilus) halli Green, 1923: 63. Nilotaspis halli Ferris, 1941.

Iran localities.

Ardabil, Azarbaijan -e Garbi, Azarbaijan -e Sharghi, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Esfahan, Fars, Hamadan, Kerman, Kermanshah, Kohgilouyeh & Boyerahmad, Lorestan, Sistan & Balouchestan, Yazd.

Host plants.

Anacardiaceae : Pistacia khinjuk ; Fabaceae : Astragalus sp., Ebenus stellata ; Rosaceae : Amygdalus communis , Amygdalus lycioides , Amygdalus persica , Amygdalus reuteri , Amygdalus scoparia , Armeniaca vulgaris , Prunus amygdalus , Prunus armeniaca , Prunus domestica , Prunus persica , Prunus reuteri , Prunus sorparia , Prunus spinosa .

References.

Balachowsky (1954), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1946, 1955), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Miller and Davidson (2005), Moghaddam (2004), Moghaddam and Tavakoli (2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

This is the first record of Mercetaspis halli from the plant family Anacardiaceae .