Contigaspis davatchii Kaussari

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 : 17-18

● Contigaspis davatchii Kaussari

Contigaspis davatchii Kaussari, 1959: 131-134.

Iran localities.

Esfahan, Kohgilouyeh & Boyerahmad.

Host plants.

Amaranthaceae : Noaea mucronata ; Asteraceae : Cousinia sp.

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kaussari (1959, 1964), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

This is the first record of Contigaspis davatchii from the plant family Amaranthaceae .