Coccobius desantisi (Hayat), 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 : 632-633

Coccobius desantisi (Hayat) comb. n.

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Prophyscus latiscapus De Santis, 1940: 24 [in De Santis 1940b]. Type data: ARGENTINA: La Plata, i.1938, De Santis, L., ex Quadraspidiotus perniciosus (Comstock) [= Comstockaspis perniciosa (Comstock) ]. Holotype, ♂. Type depository: MLPA [examined] .

Prophyscus desantisi Hayat, 1985: 321 [in Hayat 1985b]. Secondary homonym of Physcus latiscapus Girault, 1929 .

Diagnosis

Antenna with scape laterally flattened and ventrally enlarged, with expansive sensory structure at base ( Figure 9A ); Fu1 quadrate and strongly enlarged (compare Figure 9A with Hayat 1985b, fig. 87).

Redescription

Male. Antenna with 8 segments, formula 1,1,4,2 ( Figure 9A ); scape elliptical, strongly laterally flattened with sensory area at the base, 1.5× as long as wide; pedicel globular, subequal in length to Fu1; Fu1 quadrate, subequal in length to Fu2, 0.9× as long as Fu3; flagellar segments each with numerous multiporous plate sensilla. Head with frontovertex with transverse sculpture ( Figure 9C ); mandibles with 1 tooth and a truncation. Mesosoma with pronotum entire; mid lobe of mesoscutum with approximately 40 setae, sculpture reticulate; axilla slightly advanced, each with 1 seta ( Figure 9D ); mesoscutellum (mss) with 2 pairs of setae, sculpture longitudinally reticulate, scutellar sensilla widely separated ( Figure 9E ); metanotum transverse. Fore wing broad, 2.1× as long as wide, uniformly setose; marginal fringe 0.1× as long as width of wing disc; submarginal vein with 7 setae; marginal vein 0.9× as long as submarginal vein; stigmal vein elongate; postmarginal vein absent ( Figure 9F ). Tarsal formula 5-5-5. Gaster 7-segmented; cerci slightly advanced.

Female. Unknown.

Material examined

Holotype: See above.

Comments

The holotype of Coccobius desantisi is in poor condition, and many structures (head, mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, acropleuron, aedeagus, etc.) are partially or completely obscured. Additional material should be collected from the type locality to enhance the species description. See Coccobius for further discussion.

Figures

Figure 9. Coccobius desantisi Hayat (Physcini Yasnosh) holotype male. (A) Antenna (lateral), (B) habitus (dorsal), (C) head, (D) mesoscutum (dorsal), (E) mesoscutellum (dorsal), (F) fore wing. axl: axillula; scps: scape sensilla.