Dactylopius ficus
Pseudococcus vitis
An annotated checklist of the scale insects of Iran (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Coccoidea) with new records and distribution data
Moghaddam, Masumeh
ZooKeys
2013
334
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Signoret
Insecta
Pseudococcidae
Planococcus
CoL
Animalia
Planococcus ficus
Hemiptera
60
61
Arthropoda
species
ficus
Dactylopius ficusSignoret, 1875: 315. Pseudococcus vitisFernald, 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), Kozaret al. (1996), Moghaddam (2006, 2009, 2013) and Williams and Moghaddam (2000).
Note. This is the first record of Planococcus ficusfrom the plant family Cucurbitaceae.