Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead, 1894)

Moghaddam, Masoumeh & Zarghami, Sara, 2024, Scale insect species (Hemiptera, Coccomorpha) on the date palms (Phoenix dactylifera) in Iran with description of a new species, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (4), pp. 769-779 : 770

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.10.4.769

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:853778BD-7C0D-470F-AB7C-F7BFC2D6918F

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/001C87DD-4232-FF9E-FFF7-34DACC1D4D21

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead, 1894)
status

 

Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead, 1894) View in CoL ( Fig. 1B)

Material examined. on Ph. dactylifera ( Arecaceae ). SISTAN-o BALOUCHESTAN: 2♀♀, Chabahar, Pishin (26°01'29.0"N, 61°45'11.7"E, 540 m a.s.l.), 10.ii.1996; 3♀♀, Saravan, Nahook (27°22'31.7"N, 62°19'32.0"E, 1157 m a.s.l.), 25.xi.2011.

Remarks. Aonidiella orientalis is a tropical and subtropical species with a cosmopolitan distribution. The species is highly polyphagous and it can attack almost any host except conifers, according to Williams & Watson (1988). In Iran, the species has been recorded on 26 host plant species belonging to 13 plant families ( Moghaddam & Watson, 2021).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Diaspididae

Genus

Aonidiella

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