Saissetia miranda
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Description
Saissetia miranda (Cockerell & Parrott in Cockerell, 1899)
(Plate 1 A, B, C)
Material examined. Sixteen adult females: IRAN: left label: 2963/ Fars province: / 3.5 km E Estahban/ 21.vii.2018 / N29˚06′40.6″/ E54˚04′32.8″; right label: Saissetia miranda / (Cock. & Parl.) [mis-spelling of an abbreviation of Parrott]/ on Ficus carica L. (Moraceae)/ coll. H. Faghih (HMIM).
Comment: Saissetia miranda was described originally from Mexico; it is now much more widespread, but has not been recorded from Africa (García Morales et al. 2016). The species is polyphagous, with a wide range of host plants. It has been recorded previously from Iran on Melia azedarach L. (Meliaceae) (Moghaddam et al. 2015); here it is recorded as a pest of F. carica (Moraceae) from Estahban, Fars province, for the first time.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Coccidae
- Genus
- Saissetia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Cockerell & Parrott in Cockerell
- Species
- miranda
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Saissetia miranda (Cockerell, 1899) sec. Moghaddam & Faghih, 2019
References
- Garcia Morales, M., Denno, B. D., Miller, D. R., Miller, G. L., Ben-Dov, Y. & Hardy, N. B. (2016) ScaleNet: a literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics. Database. https: // 10.1093 / database / bav 118
- Moghaddam, M., Sahraian, H. & Abbasi, J. (2015) The first record of invasive soft scale of Saissetia miranda (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae) and with an identification key to species of genus Saissetia in Iran. In: Manzari, S. (Ed.), Proceedings of the First Iranian International Congress of Entomology, Karaj, Iran, 29 - 31 August 2015, pp. 228 - 231.