Diaspidiotus perniciosus (Comstock)

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 : 23

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Diaspidiotus perniciosus (Comstock)
status

 

Diaspidiotus perniciosus (Comstock)

Aspidiotus perniciosus Comstock, 1881: 304.

Iran localities.

Ardabil, Gilan, Mazandaran.

Host plants.

Cucurbitaceae : Citrullus vulgaris ; Rosaceae : Malus domestica , Prunus sp., Rosa sp.; Salicaceae : Populus euramericana , Populus nigra .

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), CABI (1986), Kaussari and Farahbakhsh (1968), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004, 2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

This is the first record of Diaspidiotus pernicosus from the plant family Cucurbitaceae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Diaspididae

Genus

Diaspidiotus