Contigaspis sarkissiani (Kaussari & Balachowsky)

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 : 18

● Contigaspis sarkissiani (Kaussari & Balachowsky)

Paragadaspis sarkissiani Kaussari & Balachowsky in Balachowsky 1954: 162.

Iran localities.

Esfahan, Golestan, Kerman, Yazd.

Host plants.

Asteraceae : Artemisia sp.; Boraginaceae : Heliotropium sp.; Fabaceae : Astragalus sp.

References.

Balachowsky (1954), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1955, 1964), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004, 2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

This is the first record of Contigaspis sarkissiani from the plant family Fabaceae .