Armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Diaspididae) on ornamental plants in Adana, Turkey

A study in 2011-2013 to identified armored scale insect species (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) feeding on ornamental plants in Adana, Turkey. Scale insect samples were collected from leaves, stems and fruits from different host plants and examined in the laboratory. Twenty-three species of Diaspididae were determined from 180 samples: Aonidia lauri (Bouche, 1833), Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell, 1879), Aspidiotus hedericola Leonardi 1920, Aspidiotus nerii (Bouche, 1833), Carulaspis juniperi (Bouche, 1851), Carulaspis minima (Signoret, 1869), Chrysomphalus dictyospermi (Morgan, 1889), Comstockaspis perniciosa (Comstock, 1881), Diaspis echinocacti (Bouche, 1833), Diaspidiotus pyri (Lichtenstein, 1881), Diaspidiotus uvae (Comstock, 1881), Epidiaspis leperii (Signoret, 1869), Hemiberlesia cyanophylli (Signoret, 1869), Hemiberlesia lataniae (Signoret, 1869), Lepidosaphes conchiformis (Gmelin, 1790), Lepidosaphes gloverii (Packard, 1869), Leucaspis pusilla Low, 1883, Melanaspis inopinata (Leonardi, 1913), Unaspis euonymi (Comstock, 1881), Parlatoria oleae (Colvee, 1880), Parlatoria pergandii (Comstock, 1881), Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni Tozzetti, 1886) and Torosaspis farsianus (Balachowsky & Kaussari, 1955). Among these species, D. uvae and T. farsianus are new records for Turkey.