Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green, 1908)

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 : 776

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17027553

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/001C87DD-4234-FF98-FFF7-371ECD654358

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green, 1908)
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Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green, 1908) View in CoL

Material examined. on Ph. dactylifera ( Arecaceae ). SISTAN-o BALOUCHESTAN: 1♀♀, Chabahar, Bahookalat [25°42'26"N, 61°25'34"E], 1.v.2001.

Remarks. Maconellicoccus hirsutus was first recorded in Iran ( Moghaddam, 2006), this species is native to southern Asia ( Williams, 1996). M. hirsutus is highly polyphagous and it shows some preference for hosts in the Malvaceae , Fabaceae and Moraceae ( García Morales et al., 2016) . In Iran, it has been found on 25 host-plant species belonging to 18 families, including P. dactylifera ( Moghaddam & Watson, 2022) . There is not any report of damage on Ph. dactylifera .

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