Brethesiella coccidophaga (Blanchard, 1940)

(Not included in the key)

Neocopidosoma coccidophaga Blanchard 1940: 107, 126–128 (holotype male, Museo de La Plata,

La Plata, Argentina, not examined).

Noblanchardia coccidophaga (Blanchard): De Santis 1964: 176 –178.

Brethesiella coccidophaga (Blanchard): Noyes 1980: 183.

Type locality Sauzalito, Salta, Argentina .

Distribution Argentina.

Host Icerya sp. on mandarin (Blanchard 1940).

Comments

This species was described from the male sex only; the female is unknown. Brethesiella coccidophaga probably belongs to the latifrons species group. It may be a synonym of one of the described Argentine species of Brethesiella, but that would be difficult to show without access to the type material of both B. coccidophaga and B. longipes, and without freshly collected specimens reared from known hosts in Argentina.