Coccophagoides Girault

Hayat, Mohammad, 2011, On Coccophagoides Girault and Diaspiniphagus Silvestri (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae), Zootaxa 3070, pp. 15-22 : 15-16

Coccophagoides Girault

Coccophagoides Girault, 1915: 58 . Type species Coccophagus abnormicornis Girault, 1915 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. A generic diagnosis was given by Hayat (1998: 236), but that diagnosis includes also some characters of Diaspiniphagus . Coccophagoides is restricted to species that differ from Diaspiniphagus in the following characters: scutellum with 6 setae; each axilla with 2 setae ( Fig. 5 ) (in one species, C. orientalis (Agarwal) , some specimens have only one seta on one axilla or one seta on both axillae); fore wing with parastigma long, about half length of marginal vein; marginal vein short, usually not longer than 0.5 of costal cell ( Fig. 7 ). Female gaster with 8 tergites; T VII band-like, lateroventrally continuous with or connected to outer plates of the ovipositor ( Fig. 6 ); hypopygium extending to or nearly to apex of gaster. Male genitalia with a short (about 2 as long as broad), basally narrowed, phallobase, and without parameres or digiti, but with a plate probably representing the fused digiti ( Fig. 8 , reproduced from Hayat, 1998: Fig. 864).

Comments. Coccophagoides is mainly Australian (5 species), with one species described from Japan (and recorded from China) and two species from the Oriental region ( India, Pakistan).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. 1 – 4, Diaspiniphagus moeris (Walker): 1, mesosoma, female; 2, apex of gaster, female; 3, basal part of fore wing, female; 4, male genitalia (from Viggiani & Battaglia, 1984). 5 – 6, Coccophagoides orientalis (Agarwal): 5, mesosoma, female; 6, apex of gaster, showing separate TVIII, female. 7 – 8, Coccophagoides utilis Doutt: 7, basal part of fore wing, female; 8, male genitalia (from Hayat, 1998)