Brethesiella coccidophaga ( Blanchard, 1940 )

Trjapitzin, Vladimir A. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2006, A new species of Brethesiella (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from California, USA, a parasitoid of Steatococcus tabernicolus (Hemiptera: Margarodidae), Zootaxa 1167, pp. 1-16 : 11

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.2645485
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2F4FCA0C-DE18-48AF-B8EA-C82EFCC420D9
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/79315833-FFBA-5F1C-B626-FE73F412FAC1
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Brethesiella coccidophaga ( Blanchard, 1940 )
status

Treatment

Brethesiella coccidophaga ( Blanchard, 1940) View in CoL

(Not included in the key)

Neocopidosoma coccidophaga Blanchard 1940: 107 View in CoL , 126–128 (holotype male, Museo de La Plata,

La Plata, Argentina, not examined).

Noblanchardia coccidophaga (Blanchard) View in CoL : De Santis 1964: 176 –178.

Brethesiella coccidophaga (Blanchard) View in CoL : Noyes 1980: 183.

Type locality Sauzalito , Salta, Argentina .

Distribution Argentina.

Host Icerya sp. on mandarin ( Blanchard 1940).

Comments

This species was described from the male sex only; the female is unknown. Brethesiella coccidophaga probably belongs to the latifrons species group. It may be a synonym of one of the described Argentine species of Brethesiella , but that would be difficult to show without access to the type material of both B. coccidophaga and B. longipes , and without freshly collected specimens reared from known hosts in Argentina.