Scale insect species (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha) on the date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) in Iran with description of a new species | ||
| Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics | ||
| Article 8, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2024, Pages 769-779 PDF (5.36 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research Article | ||
| DOI: 10.61186/jibs.10.4.769 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Masoumeh Moghaddam* 1; Sara Zarghami2 | ||
| 1Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (IRIPP), Tehran, Iran | ||
| 2Date Palm and Tropical Fruits Research Center, Horticultural Science Research Institute, Ahvaz, Iran | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Surveys of scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha) infesting date palms (Phoenix dactylifera L., Arecaceae) in Iran represented the occurrence of 10 species belonging to five families. The recorded species were: Asterolecaniidae - Palmaspis phoenicis (Ramachandra Rao); Diaspididae - Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead), Fiorinia phoenicis Balachowsky, Parlatoria blanchardi (Targioni Tozzetti) and Parlatoria crypta McKenzie; Monophlebidae - Pseudaspidoproctus hyphaeniacus (Hall); Phoenicococcidae - Phoenicococcus marlatti Cockerell; and Pseudococcidae - Dysmicoccus brevipes (Cockerell), Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green), and Formicococcus phoenicis Moghaddam & Zarghami sp. nov., a new species of mealybug feeding on the roots of the date palm, is described and illustrated based on the adult female. An annotated list of these species is presented. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Formicococcus; Pseudococcidae; root mealybug; sternorrhyncha | ||
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