Eriopeltis, Signoret

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 : 59

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5542.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14448020
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scientific name	Eriopeltis
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Genus ERIOPELTIS Signoret View in CoL View at ENA

Eriopeltis Signoret, 1872b: 429 View in CoL . Type species: Coccus festucae Fonscolombe View in CoL 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).