Lopholeucaspis japonica (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 : 36

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.334.5818

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scientific name

Lopholeucaspis japonica (Cockerell)
status

 

Lopholeucaspis japonica (Cockerell)

Leucaspis japonicus Cockerell, 1897: 53.

Iran localities.

Gilan, Hormozgan, Mazandaran, Sistan & Balouchestan.

Host plants.

Aceraceae : Acer insigne ; Betulaceae : Corylus avellana ; Buxaceae : Buxus hyrcana ; Caprifoliaceae : Lonicera caprifolium ; Celastraceae : Euonymus japonicus ; Fabaceae : Robinia sp.; Magnoliaceae : Magnolia grandiflora ; Moraceae : Ficus bengalensis , Ficus carica , Ficus riligiosa , Morus alba ; Rosaceae : Cydonia oblonga , Mespilus germanica , Rosa sp.

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Kaussari (1970), Kaussari and Farahbakhsh (1968), Kozár et al. (1996), Miller and Davidson (2005), Moghaddam (2004, 2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

This is the first record of Lopholeucaspis japonica from the plant family Buxaceae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Diaspididae

Genus

Lopholeucaspis