Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock

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 : 7

Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock

Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock, 1881: 331.

Iran localities.

Ardabil, Fars, Gilan, Mazandaran.

Host plants.

Araliaceae : Hedera pastuchowii ; Ebenaceae : Diospyros kaki ; Moraceae : Ficus benjamina ; Pinaceae : Cedrus sp.; Rosaceae : Cydonia oblonga ; Rutaceae : Citrus sinensis ; Taxodiaceae : Metasequoia glyptostroboides .

References.

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

Notes.

These are the first records of Ceroplastes floridensis from plant families Moraceae and Taxodiaceae .