Ortheziola marottai Kaydan & Szita

Moghaddam, Masumeh & Watson, Gillian W., 2024, The Scale Insects Of Iran (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) Part 3 The Soft Scales (Coccidae) And Other Families, Zootaxa 5542 (1), pp. 1-202 : 175

Ortheziola marottai Kaydan & Szita

( Fig. 86 , distribution map Fig. 91G )

Ortheziola marottai Kaydan & Szita in Kaydan et al., 2014: 72–74 .

Field characters: Intact adult female not seen.

Microscopic diagnosis: Slide-mounted adult female body oval. Antennae each with 3 segments, third (apical) antennal segment with long slender apical seta. Legs each with rows of robust spine-like setae. Wax plates (represented by groups of spines) absent from ventral marginal areas of head and thorax, except for a small spine cluster next to antenna and a normal wax plate between antennae; each thoracic spiracle surrounded by marginal wax band. Setae few, scattered; and associated with anterior and posterior multilocular pore rows, several more associated with posterior multilocular pores surrounding vulva. Abdominal spiracles present with 3 pairs on each side of body anterior to ovisac band and 1 pair situated inside ovisac band, near anterolateral angle; each abdominal spiracle with a sclerotized vestibule. Anal ring with incomplete triple row of circular pores. A sclerotized tergite present on abdominal segment VII, anterior to anal ring. Each multilocular pore cluster laterad of anal ring with an abdominal spiracle present in centre.

Distribution: Ortheziola marottai has been recorded from Croatia, Greece (including Cyprus), Romania, Türkiye ( Turkey) and Iran ( García Morales et al. 2016), where it was found in Gilan province ( Kaydan et al. 2014).

Host-plants: Unknown.

Economic importance: Ortheziola marottai is of no economic importance in Iran.

Natural enemies: None recorded in Iran.

Figures

FIGURE 86. Adult female of Ortheziola marottai Kaydan & Szita, reproduced from Kaydan et al. (2014), page 73, fig. 22, with kind permission from the authors and the Editor of Zookeys.

FIGURE 91. Distribution maps of scale insect species in Iran covered in this work. A, Kermes quercus (Linnaeus); B, Kermes spatulatus Balachowsky; C, Neoacanthococcus pamiricus (Bazarov); D, Neoacanthococcus tamaricicola Borchsenius; E, Nidularia balachowskii Bodenheimer; F, Orthezia urticae (Linnaeus); G, Ortheziola marottai Kaydan & Szita; H, Palaeolecanium bituberculatum (Signoret); I, Palmaspis phoenicis (Ramachandra Rao); J, Parthenolecanium corni (Bouché); K, Parthenolecanium persicae (Fabricius); L, Phoenicococcus marlatti Cockerell.