identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
1411072A947BB03D766E8BC7FEDA237B.text	1411072A947BB03D766E8BC7FEDA237B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrody-Younga 1971	<div><p>Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrödy-Younga, 1971 (Figs 1–2)</p><p>Material examined. 11♂♂ 10♀♀ (HMIM), IRAN, Gilan province, Rasht, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=49.452778&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=37.281113" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 49.452778/lat 37.281113)">Pasikhan</a>, 37°16'52"N, 49°27'10"E, 23.VII.2023, Mulberry Garden, leg. B. Rafiei ; 1♂ 1♀ (HMIM), IRAN, Mazandaran province, Salman- <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=51.195&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=36.7025" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 51.195/lat 36.7025)">Shahr</a>, 36°42'9"N, 51°11'42"E, VII.2023 ; 1♂ 2♀♀ <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=51.025&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=36.75139" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 51.025/lat 36.75139)">Nashtarud</a>, 36°45'5"N, 51°1'30"E, XII.2023, leg.: Chitgar.</p><p>Diagnostic characters. Length 1.0– 12 mm. Male with yellow to orange head, pronotum, prosternum, mesosternum and legs. Females black with brownish legs. Dorsum glabrous with fine punctation, which is more visible on elytra. Antennal club truncate. Aedeagus with parallel sides basally, triangular apically (Fig. 2). According to Kirejtshuk and Fallahzadeh (2010), it differs from Cybocephalus aonidiellae Kirejtshuk &amp; Fallahzadeh by lighter head and pronotum of males, coarser punctation and apically triangular tegmen.</p><p>Biological note. The beetles were reared with a colony of white peach scale, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona, kept in the laboratory of Gilan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, and the Biological Control Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran. In the laboratory, C. nipponicus actively fed on the colonies of white peach scale, that were reared on Kiwifruit (Actinida delicious C.F. Liang &amp; A. R. Ferguson) and pumpkin species ( Cucurbita moschata Duchesne and Cucurbita maxima Duchesne) under controlled conditions of 25 ± 1°C and 70 ± 5% relative humidity in Gilan. In Tehran, it was active for about two weeks feeding on white peach scale at room temperature.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1411072A947BB03D766E8BC7FEDA237B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Serri, Sayeh;Rafiei, Bahareh;Gholamzadeh Chitgar, Molood;Manzari, Shahab;Farrokhi, Shahram;Audisio, Paolo	Serri, Sayeh, Rafiei, Bahareh, Gholamzadeh Chitgar, Molood, Manzari, Shahab, Farrokhi, Shahram, Audisio, Paolo (2024): New record of a biological control agent, Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrödy-Younga, 1971 (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae) from Iran. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (3): 581-587, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.10.3.581, URL: https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.10.3.581
