Taxonomic review of Coccobius species (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from China, with notes on their use in biological control of scale insect pests (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), and description of a new species
Author
Wang, Zhu Hong
Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management for Fujian-Taiwan Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, China; & Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology, China; & Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
Author
Huang, Jian
Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management for Fujian-Taiwan Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, China; & Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Ecology, China; & Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
Author
Pan, Dong Ming
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
text
Journal of Natural History
2013
J. Nat. Hist.
2013-08-13
48
5 - 6
359
373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2013.791954
journal article
7040
10.1080/00222933.2013.791954
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1464-5262
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Coccobius wuyiensis
Huang
Coccobius wuyiensis
Huang, 1994: 169
.
Holotype
♀
,
CHINA
:
Fujian
,
Chong’an
,
Wuyishan Natural Reserve
,
7 September 1988
(
C.F. Lin
) sweeping, (FAFU).
Host
Unknown.
Distribution
China
(
Fujian
).
Comments
Coccobius wuyiensis
resembles
Coccobius aligarhensis
(Hayat)
, but differs from the latter in having the scape basally dark brown, pedicel weakly darkish; vertex, mid lobe of mesoscutum and scutellum dark brown; metasomal terga laterally with noncontinuous dark brown areas. In
C. aligarhensis
the antenna is pale yellow, except the scape basally brown; the mid lobe of the mesoscutum and scutellum are not completely dark brown; the metasoma is pale with a longitudinal brown band on each side extending from the base to the cercal plates.