Pulvinaria vitis (Linnaeus)

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 : 10-11

Pulvinaria vitis (Linnaeus)

Coccus vitis Linnaeus, 1758: 455. Pulvinaria betulae Signoret, 1873

Iran localities.

Esfahan, Fars, Gilan, Ilam, Kermanshah, Khorasan -e Razavi, Mazandaran, Tehran, Yazd.

Host plants.

Betulaceae : Alnus sp.; Fabaceae : Robinia sp.; Moraceae : Ficus carica ; Rosaceae : Pyrus communis ; Salicaceae : Salix sp.; Vitaceae : Vitis persica .

References.

Afchar (1937), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Bodenheimer (1944), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1946, 1957), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996) and Moghaddam (2009, 2010).

Notes.

These are the first records of Pulvinaria vitis from the plant families Fabaceae and Moraceae .