Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 3774 No. 5: 10 Mar. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-03-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.5.4
Page range: 460–472
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

Three new species of Coccobius Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae) and redescription of C. abdominis Huang and C. furviflagellatus Huang from China

Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management for Fujian-Taiwan Crops, Ministry of Agriculture; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology; Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China.
Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management for Fujian-Taiwan Crops, Ministry of Agriculture; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology; Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China.
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
new species scale insects Diaspididae parasitoids

Abstract

Three new species of Coccobius Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) are described from China, Coccobius bimaculatus Wang, Huang & Polaszek sp. nov., Coccobius jinshanensis Wang, Huang & Polaszek sp. nov. and Coccobius leptocerus Wang, Huang & Polaszek sp. nov. Coccobius abdominis Huang 1994 and Coccobius furviflagellatus Huang 1994, originally described in Chinese, are redescribed in English and illustrated by macrophotography based on newly collected material. All five species were reared from Diaspididae (Hemiptera) scale insects on bamboo. Both the male of C. furviflagellatus and the diaspidid host association of C. abdominis and C. furviflagellatus are recorded for the first time.