New record of a biological control agent, Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrödy-Younga, 1971 (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae) from Iran | ||
| Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics | ||
| Article 10, Volume 10, Issue 3, 2024, Pages 581-587 PDF (2.32 M) | ||
| Document Type: Short Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.61186/jibs.10.3.581 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Sayeh Serri* 1; Bahareh Rafiei2; Molood Gholamzadeh Chitgar3; Shahab Manzari1; Shahram Farrokhi4; Paolo Audisio5 | ||
| 1Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran | ||
| 2Plant Protection Department, Gilan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center. Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Gilan, Iran | ||
| 3Plant Protection Department, Mazandaran Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Mazandaran, Iran | ||
| 4Biological Control Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran | ||
| 5Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza Rome University, Viale dell’Universita’ 32, I-00185, Rome, Italy | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Here we report the presence of Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrödy-Younga, 1971 from Iran, which has been collected on mulberry in Gilan province, as well as on bitter orange and Japanese spindle in Mazandaran province, northern Iran. The specimens were collected while feeding on scale insects, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni Tozzetti, 1886), Unaspis euonymi (Comstock, 1881) and Lepidosaphes gloveri (Packard, 1869) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). Photos of habitus and genitalia with some taxonomic comments are presented. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Biocontrol; Conservation; new record; Predator; Scale insects | ||
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