Asterolecanium, Targioni Tozzetti

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 : 25

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Genus ASTEROLECANIUM Targioni Tozzetti

Asterolecanium Targioni Tozzetti, 1868: 734 . Type species: Coccus aureus Boisduval by monotypy.

Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Slide-mounted, body with 8-shaped pores forming a single marginal row, each pore at least twice as long as diameter of a marginal quinquelocular disc-pore. Anal ring with pores and 4 or 6 setae, situated at base of an expanded tube or a long tube with parallel sides. Dorsal 8-shaped pores normally present. Submedian dorsal tubes absent from near apex of abdomen.

Comments: Worldwide, 59 species are included in Asterolecanium ( García Morales et al. 2016) ; only A. bornmuelleri has been recorded from Iran ( Rübsaamen 1902).