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Prococcophagini Kresslein and Polaszek 2025, trib. n.
Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA; & USDA-ARS Systematic Entomology Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA;
- 2. Science: Research, Natural History Museum, London, UK;
- 3. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA;
- 4. National Identification Services, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Beltsville, MD, USA;
- 5. US Vegetable Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Charleston, SC, USA
Description
Prococcophagini Kresslein and Polaszek trib. n.
Type genus: Prococcophagus Silvestri, 1915. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 4DC9F8E5-C44B-4BF3-81AD-7B2EA38E8DBE
Diagnosis
Antenna with contrasting white and brown segments; scape almost always laterally flattened and strongly expanded (rarely unmodified); often with evident trichoid and mushroom sensilla on flagellar segments. Mesonotum with mesoscutum uniformly setose; axilla subquadrate with 1–4 setae. Fore wing usually infuscate towards base and hyaline at apex.
Notes
Published as part of 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), pp. 609-653 in Journal of Natural History 59 (9 - 12) on page 621, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2436124, http://zenodo.org/record/14970885
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kresslein and Polaszek
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Aphelinidae
- Taxon rank
- tribe
- Taxonomic status
- trib. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Prococcophagini Kresslein & Polaszek, 2025