New record of a biological control agent, Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrödy-Younga, 1971 (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae) from Iran

Sayeh Serri; Bahareh Rafiei; Molood Gholamzadeh Chitgar; Shahab Manzari; Shahram Farrokhi; Paolo Audisio

Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics (Sep 2024)

New record of a biological control agent, Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrödy-Younga, 1971 (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae) from Iran

Sayeh Serri,
Bahareh Rafiei,
Molood Gholamzadeh Chitgar,
Shahab Manzari,
Shahram Farrokhi,
Paolo Audisio

Affiliations

Sayeh Serri: Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran
Bahareh Rafiei: Plant Protection Department, Gilan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center. Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Gilan, Iran
Molood Gholamzadeh Chitgar: Plant Protection Department, Mazandaran Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Mazandaran, Iran
Shahab Manzari: Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran
Shahram Farrokhi: Biological Control Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran
Paolo Audisio: Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza Rome University, Viale dell’Universita’ 32, I-00185, Rome, Italy

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 3
pp. 581 – 587

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Here we report the presence of Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrödy-Younga, 1971 from Iran, which has been collected on mulberry in Gilan province, as well as on bitter orange and Japanese spindle in Mazandaran province, northern Iran. The specimens were collected while feeding on scale insects, Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni Tozzetti, 1886), Unaspis euonymi (Comstock, 1881) and Lepidosaphes gloveri (Packard, 1869) (Hemiptera: Diaspididae). Photos of habitus and genitalia with some taxonomic comments are presented.

Published in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics

ISSN: 2423-8112 (Online)
Publisher: Tarbiat Modares University
Country of publisher: Iran, Islamic Republic of
LCC subjects: Science: Science (General); Science: Biology (General): Life; Science: Zoology; Agriculture; Science: Biology (General): Ecology
Website: https://jibs.modares.ac.ir/

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