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Diaspidiotus platychaetae Takagi & Moghaddam, 2005 (Diaspididae: Diaspidiotus)

Diaspidiotus platychaetae Takagi & Moghaddam 2005: 54. Type data: IRAN: Hhuzestan Province, Bagmalek, altitude 5759 m, on Platychaeta mucronifolia, 30 April, 2001.. Holotype, female, Type depository: Tehran: Plant Pests and Diseases Research Institute, Iran; accepted valid name Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: Diaspidiotus platychaetae is unique in the median trullae with the apex obliquely truncated and broadly concave. Diaspidiotus slavonicus (Green) (=Quadraspidiotus slavonicus) is variable in the shape of the median trullae; in one form the median trullae (and the second, too) are subrectangular, with the apex truncated and slightly concave (Balachowsky, 1950), thus resembling the median trullae in D. platychaetae. These two species differ in many other features, and there seems to be no possibility that they are closely related. Aspidaspis dentilobis Kaussari and Balachowsky also possesses rectangular median trullae. All these species occur in Iran, but are associated with quite different plants. (Takagi & Moghaddam, 2005)
Structure: Female and male tests occurring on both surfaces of the leaves. Female test circular, white, with the exuvial casts yellowish to brownish; male test also white. Adult female. Body broadly obpyriform, with the pygidium broad and triangular; attaining lmm or more in length when fully grown. Prepygidial region rounded, broadly sclerotized along the margin at maturity. Dorsal surface of the pygidium sclerotized, largely covered with irregular longitudinal stripes, sub basally with a pair of transverse submedian scleroses and a pair of oblique lateral scleroses. (Takagi & Moghaddam, 2005)
General Remarks: Description and illustration of host plant by Takagi & Moghaddam (2005).

Moghad2013a: distribution, host, 26
MoghadWa2021: diagnosis, distribution, host, illustration, key, taxonomy, 78, 95-96, 243
TakagiMo2005: description, distribution, host, illustration, taxonomy, 54-55, 74