Pulvinaria aurantii Cockerell

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 : 10

Pulvinaria aurantii Cockerell

Pulvinaria aurantii Cockerell, 1896: 19. Chloropulvinaria aurantii Borchsenius, 1952.

Iran localities.

Gilan, Golestan, Mazandaran, Sistan & Balouchestan.

Host plants.

Moraceae : Morus alba ; Myrtaceae : Psidium guajava ; Rutaceae : Citrus bigaradia , Citrus sinensis .

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Bodenheimer (1944), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1957), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996) and Moghaddam (2009, 2010).

Notes.

These are the first records of Pulvinaria aurantii from the plant families Moraceae and Myrtaceae .