Peliococcus kimmericus (Kiritshenko)

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 : 58

● Peliococcus kimmericus (Kiritshenko)

Phenacoccus kimmericus Kiritchenko, 1940: 189.

Iran localities.

Fars, Khouzestan.

Host plants.

Amaranthaceae : Noaea sp.; Fabaceae : Prosopis stephaniana .

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Kozár et al. (1996) and Moghaddam (2006, 2009, 2013).

Note.

This is the first record of Peliococcus kimmericus from the plant family Amaranthaceae .