Targionia porifera (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 : 48

Targionia porifera (Borchsenius)

Rhizaspidiotus porifera Borchsenius, 1949a: 350. Fisanotargionia quadrilobata Kaussari & Balachowsky, 1953.

Iran localities.

Esfahan, Fars, Hormozgan, Kerman, Yazd.

Host plants.

Amaranthaceae : Anabasis sp., Seidlitzia schweinfurthii ; Asteraceae : Artemisia sp.; Zygophyllaceae : Zygophyllum eurypeterum .

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari and Balachowsky (1953), Kaussari (1957, 1964, 1970), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Note.

These are the first records of Targionia porifera from the plant families Amaranthaceae and Asteraceae .