Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti)

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 : 62

Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti)

Dactylopius longispinus Targioni Tozzetti, 1867: 75. Pseudococcus adonidum Westwood, 1840.

Iran localities.

Gilan, Mazandaran, Tehran.

Host plants.

Buxaceae : Buxus hyrcana ; Celastraceae : Euonymus sp.

References.

Ben-Dov (1994), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1957), Kozár et al. (1996) and Moghaddam (2010, 2013).

Note.

This is the first record of Pseudococcus longispinus from the plant family Buxaceae .