Coccobius latiscapus (Girault), 2025

Kresslein, Robert L., Polaszek, Andrew, Burks, Roger A., Mottern, Jason L., Lahey, Zachary & Heraty, John M., 2025, Nomenclatural spring cleaning: tidying Aphelinidae of taxa that do not spark joy, and a new species of Prococcobius Hayat (Aphelinidae: Coccophaginae), Journal of Natural History 59 (9 - 12), pp. 609-653 : 633

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2436124
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14970934
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scientific name	Coccobius latiscapus (Girault)
status	comb. nov.

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Coccobius latiscapus (Girault) comb. n.

Physcus latiscapus Girault, 1929: 2 View in CoL . Type data: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia, Girault, A. A., ex. Mytilaspidis cordylinidis L. Newman [= Anzaspis cordylinidis (Maskell) ]. Syntypes, 1♂ 3♀. Type depository: WADA .

Prophyscus latiscapus ( Girault, 1929) View in CoL in Hayat 1985b: 321.

Comments

Coccobius latiscapus ( Girault, 1929) is purportedly deposited at WADA ( Dahms 1984); however, is currently missing from the collection (Melinda Moir, pers. comm.). Hayat (1985a) states in the acknowledgements that he received a loan of material of Coccobius from multiple collections, including one from Dahms at QM. Thus, while there is no record of a loan, the type material of Coccobius latiscapus may be at the insect collection at the Aligarh Muslim University. See Coccobius for further discussion.

References

Dahms EC. 1984. A checklist of the types of Australian Hymenoptera described by Alexandre Arsene Girault: III. Chalcidoidea species F-M with advisory notes. Memoirs of Queensland Museum. 21: 579-842.

Girault AA. 1929. Description of a case of lunacy in Homo and of new six-legged articulates. Brisbane (Australia): Private publication; p. 3.

Hayat M. 1985 b. Notes on some species of Coccobius and Prophyscus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), with special reference to Girault and Howard types. Orient Insects. 18: 289-334. doi: 10.1080 / 00305316.1984. 10432208.

Hayat M. 1985 a. Family Aphelinidae. In: Subba Rao BR, Hayat M, editors. The Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of India and the Adjacent Countries. Part I. Oriental Insects. p. 430.