Valid Names Results

Diaspis carmanica Davatchi & Balachowsky, 1956 (Diaspididae: Diaspis)

Nomenclatural History

• Diaspis carmanicus Davatchi & Balachowsky 1956: 106-109. Type data: IRAN: Kerman, on Pistacia khinjuk, ?/09/1955, by G. Remaudière. Syntypes, female, Type depository: Paris: Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, France; accepted valid name Illustr.
• Diaspis carmanica Davatchi & Balachowsky, 1956; Miller, D.R., Gimpel, M.E. & Williams, D.J. 2003: 946. emendation that is justified

Common Names

Ecological Associates

Hosts:

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Geographic Distribution

Keys

• MoghadWa2021: pp.105 ( Adult (F) ) [Diaspis in Iran]
• Moghad2021: pp.376 ( Adult (F) ) [Diaspis in Iran]

Remarks

• Systematics: Diaspis carmanicus is close to D. syriaca which is also found on Pistacia species (Davatchi & Balachowsky, 1956).
• Structure: Female scale cover circular, slightly convex, white; exuviae central or subcentral, light brown. Male scale cover elongate, with three longitudinal ridges, and white in colour. Microscopic diagnosis: Adult female pyriform, prosoma wide, completely membranous. Anterior spiracles each associated with 2 or 3 pores, each pore with 5 loculi; posterior spiracles each associated with 1 pore only. Pygidium with 4 pairs of lobes. (Moghaddam & Watson, 2021)
• General Remarks: Best description and illustration by Davatchi & Balachowsky (1956).

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