Palaeolecanium bituberculatum (Signoret)

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 : 9

Palaeolecanium bituberculatum (Signoret)

Lecanium bituberculatum Signoret, 1873a: 414. Eulecanium bituberculatum Fernald, 1903 (nomen nudum).

Iran localities.

Azarbaijan -e Garbi, Azarbaijan -e Sharghi, Esfahan, Kerman, Kermanshah.

Host plants.

Moraceae : Morus alba ; Rosaceae : Crataegus azarollus , Malus domestica .

References.

Afchar (1937), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Bodenheimer (1944), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1957), Kozár (1998) and Moghaddam (2009).

Notes.

This is the first record of Palaeolecanium bituberculatum from the plant family Moraceae .