Coccophagus fumadus ( Hayat, 2010 )

Wang, Zhu Hong, Xu, Li Yue, Si, Yu, Huang, Jian, Schmidt, Stefan, Polaszek, Andrew & Geng, Hui, 2021, The species of the varius group of Coccophagus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from China, with description of a new species, DNA sequence data, and a new country record, Journal of Natural History 54 (29 - 30), pp. 1879-1896 : 1887

Coccophagus fumadus ( Hayat, 2010)

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Coccophagus fumadus Hayat, 2010: 11 in Hayat and Khan, 2010. Holotype ♀, INDIA: Orissa: Puri, Matia Pada, 1.xii.2007, (F.R. Khan) National Pusa Collection, New Delhi; regn # 13/6/ 81/10 (on slide under 3 coverslips; left antennal clava missing).

Material examined

1 ♀, CHINA: Hainan Province, Danzhou City, Nada Town , 23–24 .iv .2019, YPT, leg . Hui Geng and Wen Na Wang . GH014-1 (Provisionally deposited in College of Life Sciences, Shangrao Normal University, Jiangxi, China ) .

Host

Unknown.

Distribution

India (Orissa), China (Hainan) new country record.

Comments

This species is easily distinguished from other species of the varius species group by the following characters: F3 black; two distinct pale longitudinal streaks on lateral mesoscutal mid lobe.

Comparing sequence data to those in the NCBI (GenBank) database using NCBI nucleotide BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) ( Altschul et al. 1990) revealed Coccophagus among the most similar results, mixed with matches of the closely related genus Encarsia , both with comparatively low percentage identities ranging from 88.43% (COI) to 94.88 (28D-D2). In the case of CO1 the closest match (88.43% similarity) was a partial mitogenome of Encarsia formosa (accession no. MG813797.1), followed by eight sequences of Coccophagus gurneyi , all different individuals from the same study. For the 28S-D2 sequence, the BLAST search generated Coccophagus philippiae and C. lycimnia as the top three matches.

Figures

Figure 2. Coccophagus fumadus Hayat, female. (a) meso- and metasoma (gaster); (b) antenna; (c) fore wing; (d) dorsal mesosoma; (e) head.