Planococcus ficus (Signoret)

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 : 61

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Planococcus ficus (Signoret)
status

 

Planococcus ficus (Signoret)

Dactylopius ficus Signoret, 1875: 315. Pseudococcus vitis Fernald, 1903.

Iran localities.

Elborz, Fars, Ghom, Khorasan -e Razavi, Markazi, Tehran.

Host plants.

Cucurbitaceae : Citrullus vulgaris ; Lythraceae : Punica granatum ; Moraceae : Ficus carica ; Vitaceae : Vitis persica .

References.

Asadeh and Mosaddegh (1991), Ben-Dov (1994), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Cox (1989), Kaussari (1946), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2006, 2009, 2013) and Williams and Moghaddam (2000).

Note.

This is the first record of Planococcus ficus from the plant family Cucurbitaceae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pseudococcidae

Genus

Planococcus