Anophococcus abaii (Danzig), 1990

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 : 115-116

Anophococcus abaii (Danzig)

( Fig. 51 , Plate 4A , distribution map Fig. 88G )

Acanthococcus abaii Danzig, 1990: 373–376 . Rhizococcus abaii (Danzig) ; Tang & Hao 1995: 521. Eriococcus abaii (Danzig) ; Miller & Gimpel 1999: 213. Anophococcus abaii (Danzig) ; Kozár 2009: 105.

Field characteristics: Body of live adult female up to 6 mm long, elongate ovoid. Ovisac ovoid, felted, cream or grey, completely enclosing body.

Microscopic diagnosis: Slide-mounted body of adult female oval. Antennae each with 7 segments. Frontal lobes and frontal tubercles present. Eyes situated on submargins. Legs medium sized; each hind coxa anterior surface with spinulae and large translucent pores; femur also with some pores; tibia with 4 strong setae (median seta absent); tarsal and claw digitules slightly knobbed; claw with denticle near tip. Anal lobes sclerotized, each lobe with 4 enlarged setae, 3 of which situated on mesad margin. Anal ring with 1 row of pores and bearing 4 pairs of short setae. Cauda weakly developed (not illustrated).

Dorsum. Most abdominal segments each with 7‒10 enlarged marginal setae on either side; marginal setae much longer than dorsal setae. Macrotubular ducts of 1 size, numerous throughout. Microtubular ducts present only on body margin.

Venter. Most setae hair-like, but with small enlarged setae present along body margin. Disc-pores each with 2 concentric rings of loculi, inner ring with 5 or 7 loculi, numerous throughout. Macrotubular ducts of 2 sizes: larger type, same as those on dorsum, forming a band around margin; smaller type present in medial areas. Cruciform pores absent.

Distribution: Anophococcus abaii is a Palaearctic species known only from Iran, in Kerman, Khorasan -e Jounobi, Semnan and Sistan & Balouchestan provinces ( Danzig 1990; García Morales et al. 2016).

Host-plants: The scale is only known from Haloxylon sp. ( Amaranthaceae ) ( Danzig 1990; García Morales et al. 2016).

Economic importance: There are some records of A. abaii causing severe damage to Haloxylon spp. in Iran.

Natural enemies: The following hymenopteran parasitoids of A. abaii have been recorded from Iran: Marietta picta (André) ( Aphelinidae ), Metaphycus acanthococci Myartseva ( Encyrtidae ), Pachyneuron muscarum (Linnaeus) ( Pteromalidae ) and Chartocerus subaeneus (Foerster) ( Signiphoridae ) ( Lotfalizadeh et al. 2019).

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PLATE 4. Eriococcidae: A, Anophococcus abaii (Danzig); B, Rhizococcus asperulae Moghaddam; C, Rhizococcus avicennae Moghaddam; D, Rhizococcus borchsenii (Danzig); Kermesidae: E, Kermes quercus (Linnaeus); F, Kermes spatulatus Balachowsky; G, Nidularia balachowskii Bodenheimer. Monophlebidae: H, Gueriniella serratulae (Fabricius).

FIGURE 51. Adult female of Anophococcus abaii (Danzig), reproduced from Kozár et al. (2013), page 185, fig. 70 (after Danzig (1990) with modifications), published by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

FIGURE 88. Distribution maps of scale insect species in Iran covered in this work. A, Acanthococcus aceris Signoret; B, Acanthococus costatus Danzig; C, Acanthococcus isacanthus Danzig; D, Acantholecanium haloxyloni (Hall); E, Acanthopulvinaria orientalis (Nasonov); F, Anapulvinaria pistaciae (Bodenheimer); G, Anophococcus abaii (Danzig); H, Anophococcus cingulatus (Kiritchenko); I, Anophococcus insignis (Newstead); J, Anophococcus kondarensis (Borchsenius); K, Anophococcus sanguinairensis (Goux); L, Antecerococcus longipilosus (Archangelskaya).