Lepidosaphes belutchistana Balachowsky

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 : 33

Lepidosaphes belutchistana Balachowsky

Lepidosaphes belutchistanus Balachowsky, 1954: 75-77. Mytilaspis belutchistanus Borchsenius, 1963.

Iran localities.

Hormozgan, Sistan & Balouchestan, Kerman.

Host plants.

Acanthaceae : Avicenniae officinalis ; Arecaceae : Nannorrhops ritchiana ; Apocynaceae : Nerium oleander , Periploca aphylla ; Fabaceae : Acacia sp., Prosopis spicigera .

References.

Balachowsky (1954), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Kaussari (1955, 1964), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Takagi and Moghaddam (2005) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

These are the first records of Lepidosaphes belutchistana from the plant families Acanthaceae and Arecaceae .