INSECTS OF IRAN: The List of Coccoidea in the Hayk Mirzayans insect Museum of Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection.
2008
Moqaddam, Ma`sumeh | Hassan Pur, Abu Al-Qasem | Gharavi, Mehran | Baghestani, Mohammad A`li | Khalaqani, Javad | Shir Zadiyan, Sa`id | Malek Zadeh, Mohammad Reza | Mirzayans, Hayk
The Superfamily Coccoidea known as Scale Insects are important pests of many crops. Coccoidea with over 7300 species known worldwide, have 27 families. At the present, 10 families are recorded from Iran. The first list Family Diaspididae is published (Moghaddam, 2004). This is the second list of other families. The examined materials deposited at HMIM of IRIPP, which have been collected from different parts of Iran. This checklist includes 9 families (Asterolecanidae: 2 genera, 2 species), (Cerococcidae: 1 genus, 1 species), (Coccidae: 16 genera, 21 species), (Eriococcidae: 3 genera, 5 species), (Kermesidae: 1 genus, 1 species), (Margarodidae: 4 genera, 6 species), (Ortheziidae: 1 genus, 1 species), (Phoenicococcidae 1 genus, 1 species) and (Pseudococcidae: 20 genera, 29 species). They are listed by their locality data, collectors (Leg.) and date of collection.
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