Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell)

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 : 13

Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell)

Aspidiotus aurantii Maskell, 1879: 199.

Iran localities.

Gilan, Golestan, Mazandaran, Tehran.

Host plants.

Lythraceae : Punica granatum ; Rosaceae : Amygdalus persica ; Oleaceae : Olea europaea ; Rutaceae : Citrus sinensis .

References.

Afchar (1937), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Bodenheimer (1944), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1946, 1955), Kaussari and Farahbakhsh (1968), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004, 2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

This is the first record of Aonidiella aurantii from the plant family Lythraceae .