Dynaspidiotus medicus Kaussari

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 : 28

● Dynaspidiotus medicus Kaussari

Dynaspidiotus medicus Kaussari, 1956: 102.

Iran localities.

Kerman, Sistan & Balouchestan.

Host plants.

Cruciferae: Sameraria ; Rutaceae : Haplophyllum sp.; Solanaceae : Withania somnifera .

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1956, 1964), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

This is the first record of Dynaspidiotus medicus from the plant family Solanaceae .