Three new species of armoured scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha Diaspididae) from Iran Author Moghaddam, Masumeh Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (IRIPP), Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, P. O. Box 19395 - 1454, Iran. text Zootaxa 2021 2021-06-24 4991 2 371 379 journal article 5539 10.11646/zootaxa.4991.2.10 3336077c-5d7c-46a8-8995-bfa7c252653f 1175-5326 5030370 F9EC011B-5595-4D2F-A834-D5CD758C6A4D Genus DIASPIS Costa, 1828 Genus diagnosis. Body turbinate or subcircular, membranous except for pygidium; prosoma becoming slightly swollen with maturity. Ducts with 2-barred inner ends. Median lobes (L 1 ), although sometimes close together, never yoked or zygotic; with a pair of setae present between median lobes. Second and third lobes (L 2 and L 3 ) smaller than L 1 , each bilobed; fourth lobes (L 4 ) reduced; often with a pronounced sclerotized spur in position of each fifth lobe (L 5 ). Gland spines quite small, present singly as far forward as just lateral to each L 3 , more numerous on abdominal segments III and IV; absent from between L 1 . Marginal pygidial macroducts usually numbering 6 on each side. Submarginal ducts the same size as marginal macroducts or smaller, number various. Perivulvar pores present in 5 groups.