Planococcus citri (Risso)

Dorthesia citri Risso, 1813: 416. Pseudococcus citri Cockerell, 1902.

Iran localities.

Fars, Gilan, Golestan, Khouzestan, Markazi, Mazandaran, Tehran.

Host plants.

Apocynaceae: Adenium obesum, Nerium oleander; Arecaceae: Chamacyparis lawsoniana; Caryophyllaceae: Dianthus barbatus; Crassulaceae: Crassula sp.; Cupressaceae: Cupressus sp.; Ebenaceae: Diospyros kaki; Euphorbiaceae: Codiaeum variegatum, Euphorbia pulcherrima; Moraceae: Ficus benjamina, Ficus carica, Ficus elastica, Morus alba; Oleaceae: Forsythia intermedia, Fraxinus excelsior; Platanaceae: Platanus orientalis; Poaceae: Oryza sativa; Rutaceae: Citrus bigaradia, Citrus sinensis; Rosaceae: Rosa sp.; Strelitziaceae: Strelitzia alba .

References.

Afchar (1937), Asadeh and Mosaddegh (1991), Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Bodenheimer (1944), Farahbakhsh (1961), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2006, 2009, 2010, 2013), William and Moghaddam (1999).

Note.

These are the first records of Planococcus citri from the plant families Caryophyllaceae, Crassulaceae and Cupressaceae .