The Scale Insects Of Iran (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) Part 3 The Soft Scales (Coccidae) And Other Families Author Moghaddam, Masumeh Department of Insect Taxonomy Research, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran. Author Watson, Gillian W. 0000-0001-9914-0094 Department of Insect Taxonomy Research, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran. & Science: Research, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, U. K. gillian. watson @ nhm. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9914 - 0094 * Corresponding author. moghadam @ iripp. ir; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0908 - 838 X & Department of Insect Taxonomy Research, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran. gillian.watson@nhm.ac.uk text Zootaxa 2024 2024-11-29 5542 1 1 202 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5542.1.1 journal article 306474 10.11646/zootaxa.5542.1.1 b349e73d-c49e-418c-81f7-c5d32e136362 1175-5334 14385386 2DB3A5B7-4292-4CD9-B6D8-FA97EB48DD16 Genus ERIOPELTIS Signoret Eriopeltis Signoret, 1872b: 429 . Type species: Coccus festucae Fonscolombe by monotypy and original designation. Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Live adult female completely enclosed by felt-like ovisac. Slide-mounted, body lacking stigmatic clefts and setae (apart from a few pregenital setae). Large, truncate-conical spines present throughout almost entire dorsum. Legs and antennae much reduced in size. Anal cleft short. Comments: Worldwide, nine species are included in Eriopeltis Signoret ( García Morales et al . 2016 ); only E. festucae (Boyer de Fonscolombe) is known from Iran ( Bodenheimer 1944b ).