Aspidiotus nerii Bouche

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 : 15

Aspidiotus nerii Bouche

Aspidiotus nerii Bouché, 1833: 52.

Iran localities.

Elborz, Esfahan, Fars, Gilan, Markazi, Golestan, Mazandaran, Tehran.

Host plants.

Apocynaceae : Nerium oleander ; Araliaceae : Hedera canariensis ; Arecaceae : Phoenix sp.; Asparagaceae : Asparagus officinalis ; Oleaceae : Olea europaea ; Orchidaceae : Maxillaria , longipetala; Pinaceae : Pinus sp.; Tamaricaceae : Tamarix sp.

References.

Afchar (1937), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Bodenheimer (1944), Borchsenius (1966), Davatchi (1946), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1946, 1955), Kaussari and Farahbakhsh (1968), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004, 2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

These are the first records of Aspidiotus nerii from the plant families Asparagaceae and Tamaricaceae .