Coccophagini Förster, 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 : 626

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2436124
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14970925
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4419F96A-944C-FFCD-623E-FD5BDF13FBFC
treatment provided by	Plazi (2025-03-05 08:14:57, last updated 2025-03-06 14:09:45)
scientific name	Coccophagini Förster
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Treatment

Coccophagini Förster

Coccophagini Förster 1878 in Shafee and Khan 1978: 43.

Comments

After elevating Euxanthellini and Prococcophagini to tribes, four genera remain in Coccophagini : Coccophagus s.s., Lounsburyia Compere and Insley, 1961 , Mexidalgus Myartseva, 2014 , and Timberlakiella . Preliminary phylogenomic analyses recover this restricted Coccophagini as polyphyletic. Additional taxa must be sampled to confidently resolve the classification of Coccophagini . Presently we maintain Coccophagini as a tribe, and we provide a contemporary treatment of Timberlakiella .

References

Forster A. 1878. Kleine Monographien parasitischer Hymenoptenren. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens. Bonn. 35: 42-82.

Myartseva SN, Coronado-Blanco J, Lomeli-Flores J, Martinez-Hernandez D. 2014. A new genus for a new species of the family Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Mexico. Zoosystematica Rossica. 23: 131-136. doi:10.31610/zsr/2014.23.1.131.

Shafee S, Khan M. 1978. Subfamilies and tribes of the family Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Journal of Zoological Research, Aligarh. 2: 42-45.