The Scale Insects Of Iran (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) Part 3 The Soft Scales (Coccidae) And Other Families Author Moghaddam, Masumeh Department of Insect Taxonomy Research, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran. Author Watson, Gillian W. 0000-0001-9914-0094 Department of Insect Taxonomy Research, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran. & Science: Research, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, U. K. gillian. watson @ nhm. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9914 - 0094 * Corresponding author. moghadam @ iripp. ir; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0908 - 838 X & Department of Insect Taxonomy Research, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organisation, Tehran, Iran. gillian.watson@nhm.ac.uk text Zootaxa 2024 2024-11-29 5542 1 1 202 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5542.1.1 journal article 306474 10.11646/zootaxa.5542.1.1 b349e73d-c49e-418c-81f7-c5d32e136362 1175-5334 14385386 2DB3A5B7-4292-4CD9-B6D8-FA97EB48DD16 Genus ASTERODIASPIS Signoret Asterodiaspis Signoret, 1877 : ccix. Type species: Aonidia ilicicola Targioni Tozzetti (= Asterodiaspis ilicicola (Targioni Tozzetti)) by subsequent designation by Russell (1941: 109) . Diagnostic characters of the adult female: Slide-mounted, body with relatively large 8-shaped pores distributed in a single marginal row, terminating at about one pore’s length anterior to base of each apical seta; 8-shaped pores absent from venter. Anal opening ventral, with margin sclerotized, normally bearing 2 setae; sclerotized anal bar or plate absent. Submedian dorsal tubes absent from near apex of abdomen. Comments: Worldwide, 26 species are included in Asterodiaspis ( García Morales et al . 2016 ) ; three species are known from Iran ( Moghaddam 2013 ). FIGURE 1. Asterolecaniidae adult female morphology, developed from Russell (1941) page 7, fig. 1. A, eight-shaped pore; B, antenna; C, stigmatic furrow containing spiracular disc-pores; D, dorsal tubular duct; E, dorsal tube; F, anal opening. Key to species of Asterodiaspis in Iran , based on slide-mounted adult females. 1(0) Dorsal 8-shaped pores present................................................................ bella (Russell) - Dorsal 8-shaped pores absent............................................................................ 2 2(1) Ventral multilocular disc-pores in 3 rows, numbering 6–8 (very rarely up to 13)....................... minor (Russell) - Ventral multilocular disc-pores in 4 rows, numbering at least 23................................ quercicola (Bouché)