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Serri S, Rafiei B, Gholamzadeh Chitgar M, Manzari S, Farrokhi S, Audisio P. New record of a biological control agent, Cybocephalus nipponicus Endrödy-Younga, 1971 (Coleoptera: Cybocephalidae) from Iran. J. Insect Biodivers. Syst 2024; 10 (3) :581-587
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Sayeh Serri * 
1, Bahareh Rafiei2 , Molood Gholamzadeh Chitgar3 , Shahab Manzari4 , Shahram Farrokhi5 , Paolo Audisio6
1, Bahareh Rafiei2 , Molood Gholamzadeh Chitgar3 , Shahab Manzari4 , Shahram Farrokhi5 , Paolo Audisio6
1- Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran , serrisayeh@gmail.com
2- Plant Protection Department, Gilan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center. Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Gilan, Iran
3- Plant Protection Department, Mazandaran Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Mazandaran, Iran
4- Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran
5- Biological Control Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran
6- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza Rome University, Viale dell’Universita’ 32, I-00185, Rome, Italy
2- Plant Protection Department, Gilan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center. Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Gilan, Iran
3- Plant Protection Department, Mazandaran Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Mazandaran, Iran
4- Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran
5- Biological Control Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran
6- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza Rome University, Viale dell’Universita’ 32, I-00185, Rome, Italy
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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.
Article Type: Short Paper |
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Systematics/Coleoptera
Received: 2024/03/5 | Accepted: 2024/05/1 | Published: 2024/07/3
Received: 2024/03/5 | Accepted: 2024/05/1 | Published: 2024/07/3
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