Pseudococcus viburni (Signoret)

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 : 62-63

Pseudococcus viburni (Signoret)

Dactylopius indicus Signoret, 1875: 317. Pseudococcus affinis Fernald, 1903. Pseudococcus fathyi Bodenheimer, 1944.

Iran localities.

Esfahan, Gilan, Tehran.

Host plants.

Amaranthaceae : Amaranthus blitum ; Araceae : Dieffenbachia sp., Phoenix sp.; Bignoniaceae : Catalpa speciosa ; Buxaceae : Buxus hyrcana ; Cupressaceae : Cupressus sp.; Euphorbiaceae : Codiaeum variegatum ; Fabaceae : Albizzia sp., Cercis siliquastrum ; Ginkgoaceae : Ginko biloba ; Lythraceae : Punica granatum ; Moraceae : Ficus carica , Morus alba ; Rosaceae : Rosa sp.; Solanaceae : Solanum tuberosum ; Theaceae : Camellia sinensis ; Vitaceae : Vitis persica .

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Ben-Dov (1994), Bodenheimer (1944), Kozár et al. (1996) and Moghaddam (2006, 2009, 2010, 2013).

Note.

These are the first records of Pseudococcus viburni from the plant families Amaranthaceae and Ginkgoaceae .