Cryptoparlatoreopsis Borchsenius, 1947

Moghaddam, Masumeh, 2021, Three new species of armoured scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha Diaspididae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4991 (2), pp. 371-379 : 372

Genus Cryptoparlatoreopsis Borchsenius, 1947

Genus diagnosis. This genus is distinguished by the following characters: (i) pupillarial habit; (ii) digitiform fleshy marginal processes usually present on the pygidium and prepygidial segments; (iii) pygidium and sometimes prepygidium provided with robust, long and flexible marginal setae; (iv) anterior spiracles usually with pores in most of known species; (v) second lobes, if present, small and usually conical; and (vi) orifice of marginal ducts surrounded by sclerotized rim.

Comments: Cryptoparlatoreopsis currently includes seven species. Three are distributed in the desert zone from central Asia to the Atlantic, including in Iran, on the woody parts of Tamarix and Ziziphus : C. halli ( Bodenheimer 1929) , C. meccae ( Hall 1927) and C. tlaiae ( Balachowsky 1927) . Four others are found in the Oriental Region, including India and Myanmar: C. euphorbiae Hall & Williams 1962 , C. longispina ( Takahashi 1939) , C. spinosissima ( Lindinger 1911) and C. targioniopsis ( Lindinger 1911) ( García Morales et al. 2016) .