Lepidosaphes malicola Borchsenius

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 malicola Borchsenius

Lepidosaphes malicola Borchsenius, 1947: 142.

Iran localities.

Azarbaijan -e Garbi, Azarbaijan -e Sharghi, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Elborz, Esfahan, Fars, Gilan, Hamadan, Kerman, Khorasan -e Razavi, Khorasan -e Shomali, Kohgilouyeh & Boyerahmad, Kordestan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, Tehran.

Host plants.

Fabaceae : Astragalus sp., Cercis siliquastrum ; Juglandaceae : Juglans regia ; Lythraceae : Punica granatum ; Oleaceae : Fraxinus excelsior ; Rosaceae : Cotoneaster vulgaris , Prunus armeniaca , Prunus persica , Prunus sp.; Salicaceae : Populus nigra ; Thymelaeaceae : Daphne angustifolia ; Ulmaceae : Ulmus sp.

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1955), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004, 2010), Moghaddam and Tavakoli (2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

These are the first records of Lepidosaphes malicola from the plant families Lythraceae , Thymelaeaceae and Ulmaceae .