Aspidiotus nerii Bouche

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 : 15

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Aspidiotus nerii Bouche
status

 

Aspidiotus nerii Bouche

Aspidiotus nerii Bouché, 1833: 52.

Iran localities.

Elborz, Esfahan, Fars, Gilan, Markazi, Golestan, Mazandaran, Tehran.

Host plants.

Apocynaceae : Nerium oleander ; Araliaceae : Hedera canariensis ; Arecaceae : Phoenix sp.; Asparagaceae : Asparagus officinalis ; Oleaceae : Olea europaea ; Orchidaceae : Maxillaria , longipetala; Pinaceae : Pinus sp.; Tamaricaceae : Tamarix sp.

References.

Afchar (1937), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Bodenheimer (1944), Borchsenius (1966), Davatchi (1946), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1946, 1955), Kaussari and Farahbakhsh (1968), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004, 2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

These are the first records of Aspidiotus nerii from the plant families Asparagaceae and Tamaricaceae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Diaspididae

Genus

Aspidiotus