Eulecanium ficiphilum Borchsenius

(Fig. 23, distribution map Fig. 90D)

Eulecanium ficiphilum Borchsenius, 1955: 293 .

Field characteristics: Live adult female body irregularly subspherical, wider than long, with rear end perpendicular to substrate; dead adult female light or dark yellow, with brown spots, wrinkled and with numerous concavities in surface.

Microscopic diagnosis: Slide-mounted adult female body more-or-less circular; stigmatic clefts absent; anal cleft quite well developed.

Dorsum. Derm membranous in young specimens but becoming sclerotized at maturity, particularly in area around anal plates. Setae spinose, each with a well-developed basal socket, scattered throughout. Pores of 1 type present throughout. Preopercular pores absent. Tubular ducts of 1 type present throughout, each with fairly long outer ductule, and slightly shorter, narrower inner filament ending in a terminal gland.Anal plates together quadrate, each with 3 or 4 apical or subapical setae and 1 or 2 setae along inner margin. Anal ring bearing probably 6 setae.

Margin. Marginal setae of 2 types: (i) some long flagellate setae present at anterior end, and a few at posterior end of abdomen, extending onto distal anal cleft margins; and (ii) most marginal setae thick, elongate-conical, blunt and spinelike, mainly on lateral margins. Stigmatic areas each with 0–3 spiracular setae, not differentiated from marginal setae.

Venter. Derm completely membranous. Pregenital disc-pores each with 10 loculi, present around anogenital fold and forming large medial and submedial segmental clusters on abdominal and thoracic segments. Spiracular disc-pores each with 5 loculi, present in a narrow band between each spiracle and margin. Ventral tubular ducts of 2 types: (i) larger ducts, present in a wide submarginal band around entire submargin; and (ii) smaller ducts, present around mouthparts. Legs well developed, each without a tibio-tarsal articulatory sclerosis; claw lacking a denticle; claws very thick, rough, each held at 90º to tarsus; claw digitules absent or shorter than claw. Tarsal digitules slender, short, and approximately as long as claw. Antennae each with 8 segments.

Distribution: Eulecanium ficiphilum is only known from Afghanistan, Türkiye (Turkey), Turkmenistan and Iran (García Morales et al. 2016); in Iran, it is found in Kerman and Sistan & Balouchestan provinces (Moghaddam 2013).

Host-plants: The species has only been recorded on Ficus spp. including F. carica ( Moraceae) (García Morales et al. 2016). In Iran, it has been recorded on edible fig, F. carica (Bodenheimer 1944b) .

Economic importance: There are no records of economic damage in Iran.

Natural enemies: None recorded in Iran.