Valid Names Results
Aspidiotus mousavii Moghaddam, 2018 (Diaspididae: Aspidiotus)Nomenclatural History
- Aspidiotus mousavii Moghaddam 2018: 412. Type data: IRAN: Semnan province, Semnan, 5 km W. Momen-abad, 35°32′40″N, 53°17′53″E, 1100–1130 m. a.s.1., on Matthiola revoluta, 5/31/1995, by Mosavi & Termeh,. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: Tehran: Hayk Mirzayans Insects Museum, Tehran, Iran; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes: Iran, same data as holotypes, 9 adults ♀♀ (HMIM). Illustr.
Common Names
Ecological Associates
Hosts:
Families: 4 | Genera: 4
- Araliaceae
- Hedera | MoghadWa2021
- Brassicaceae
- Matthiola revoluta | Moghad2018a
- Lauraceae
- Laurus | MoghadWa2021
- Sapindaceae
- Acer | MoghadWa2021
Geographic Distribution
Countries: 1
- Iran | Moghad2018a
Keys
- MoghadWa2021: pp.44 ( Adult (F) ) [Aspidiotus in Iran]
Remarks
- Systematics: This species is superficially similar to A. paolii Balachowsky for the absence of the perivulvar pores, and presence of dorsal prepygidial ducts, while is different in the plate form of third lobes (same as the second lobes with one outer notch). (Moghaddam, 2018a)
- Structure: Scale cover of the adult female moderately convex, circular, light brown to white in color, with two central exuviae, brown to orange in color; scale 1.7–2.0 mm diameter. Adult female on microscopic slide almost circular, 0.53–0.63mm long, 0.52–0.56 mm wide, body membranous, pygidium lightly sclerotized. Pygidium with 3 pairs of lobes. (Moghaddam, 2018a)
- General Remarks: Detailed description and illustration in Moghaddam, 2018a.
Illustrations
Citations
- Moghad2018a: description, diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 411-415
- Moghad2020: distribution, 384
- MoghadWa2021: description, diagnosis, host, illustration, 7, 42, 47-48, 240
