Diaspidiotus prunorum (Laing)

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 : 23

Diaspidiotus prunorum (Laing)

Aspidiotus prunorum Laing, 1931: 99.

Iran localities.

Azarbaijan -e Garbi, Azarbaijan -e Sharghi, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Esfahan, Fars, Golestan, Hamadan, Kerman, Kermanshah, Khorasan -e Shomali, Kohgilouyeh & Boyerahmad, Kordestan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, Tehran, Yazd.

Host plants.

Asteraceae : Echinops ritro ; Rosaceae : Malus domestica , Persica vulgaris , Prunus amygdalus , Prunus armeniaca , Prunus avium , Prunus cerasus , Prunus domestica , Prunus lycioides , Prunus persica , Amygdalus reuteri Prunus spinosa , Rosa sp.; Tamaricaceae : Tamarix sp.

References.

Balachowsky (1950a), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Dastgheyb-Beheshti et al. (1988), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1946, 1955), Kaussari and Farahbakhsh (1968), Kozár (1998), Moghaddam (2004, 2010), Moghaddam and Tavakoli (2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

This is the first record of Diaspidiotus prunorum from the plant family Tamaricaceae .