Targionia balachowskyi (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 : 47

● Targionia balachowskyi (Kaussari)

Schizotargionia balachowskyi Kaussari, 1952: 182.

Iran localities.

Esfahan, Sistan & Balouchestan.

Host plants.

Moraceae : Haloxylon sp.; Tamaricaceae : Tamarix sp.

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1952, 1955, 1970), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Note.

This is the first record of Targionia balachowskyi from the plant family Amaranthaceae .