Contigaspis zillae (Hall)

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 : 18-19

Contigaspis zillae (Hall)

Pinnaspis zillae Hall, 1923: 27-28.

Iran localities.

Azarbaijan -e Sharghi, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Golestan, Hormozgan, Sistan & Balouchestan, Tehran.

Host plants.

Amaranthaceae : Bassia prostrata ; Borajinaceae : Heliotropium sp.; Fabaceae : Indigofera argentea ; Lamiaceae : Thymus vulgaris ; Rosaceae : Crataegus azarollus .

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Borchsenius and Williams (1963), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1955), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

These are the first records of Contigaspis zillae from the plant families Lamiaceae and Rosaceae .