Acanthopulvinaria orientalis (Nazonov)

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 : 6

Acanthopulvinaria orientalis (Nazonov)

Pulvinaria orientalis Nasonov, 1908: 493.

Iran localities.

Esfahan, Hamadan, Golestan, Kerman, Khorasan -e Shomali, Sistan & Balouchestan.

Host plants.

Amaranthaceae : Halocnemum strobilaceum , Haloxylon sp., Noaea mucronata , Salsola oppositifolia ; Asteraceae : Achillea sp., Artemisia sp.; Rosaceae : Prunus lycioides ; Tamaricaceae : Tamarix sp.

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2009, 2010), Moghaddam and Tavakoli (2010).

Notes.

This is the first record for Acanthopulvinaria orientalis from the plant family Rosaceae .