Coccidencyrtus Ashmead 1900
Creators: name: Noyes, John Stuart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Coccidencyrtus

description: Key to Costa Rican species of Coccidencyrtus   
 (Females)   
1. Linear sensilla absent from F4, F4 usually conspicuously smaller than F5 or F6 (Figs 167, 172, 177, 183, 190, 215, 219).......................................................................2  
- Linear sensilla present on F4, F4 usually hardly smaller than F5 or F6 (Figs 224, 231, 241, 246, 247, 251, 254, 261, 264,271, 282)..................................................... 11  
2 (1) Mid coxa white to pale orange....................................................................................... 3  
- Mid coxa brown.............................................................................................................. 6  
3 (2) Mid tibia completely yellow without a brown subbasal ring; palp formula 2-2.............4  
- Mid tibia yellow with a narrow, brown subbasal ring; palp formula 3-2........................5  
 4 (3) Mid femur dark brown in apical half; pedicel and flagellum brown; funicle with linear sensilla on F5 and F6; clava shorter than funicle (Fig. 167); mid basitarsus with at least 3 ventral pegs.......................................................... pomadus sp.nov. (p. 86)   
 - Mid femur completely white to pale yellow; pedicel and flagellum mostly pale yellow; funicle with linear sensilla on only F6; clava longer than funicle (172); mid basitarsus with only one or two ventral pegs.................... viviana sp.nov. (p. 88)   
 5 (3) Antenna with F5 and F6 with linear sensilla, subequal and each clearly larger than F1-F4 which are subequal (Fig. 177); basitarsus with 7 or 8 ventral pegs....................................................................................................................... aries sp.nov. (p. 89)   
 - Antenna with F6 with linear sensilla and conspicuously larger than F1-F5 which are subequal (Fig. 183), F5 occasionally with linear sensilla; mid basitarsus with only 1 or 2 ventral pegs........................................................... gowanus sp.nov. (p. 91)   
6 (2) Mesoscutum fairly bright, shining metallic dark green and coppery contrasting strongly with the matt, virtually black scutellum; fore femur almost entirely brown....... 7  
- Mesoscutum relatively dull, virtually matt black or slightly shiny with a weak, purple, coppery or brassy sheen, more or less concolourous with scutellum; fore femur completely very pale yellow, sometimes with a narrow brown subbasal ring or a little dusky towards apex......................................................................................8  
 7 (6) Mid tibia white basally, almost all of remainder dark brown; linear sensilla on F5 and F6........................................................................................ reshan sp.nov. (p. 93)   
 - Mid tibia white basally, a dark brown subbasal band, apical 0.6X yellow; linear sensilla on F6 only.............................................................................. juno sp.nov. (p. 94)   
 8 (6) Mid femur and tibia and hind tibia entirely yellow to pale orange; clava shorter than F3- F6 combined (Fig. 200)..................................................... chenoa sp.nov. (p. 96)   
- Mid femur and tibia and hind tibia with dark brown areas; clava longer than funicle (Fig 206, 215, 219)...................................................................................................... 9  
 9 (8) Scape at least 4X as long as broad and largely orange to orange-brown; mesoscutum shiny with shallow imbricate-reticulate sculpture that contrasts with the deeper, polygonally reticulate sculpture of the scutellum.............. procris sp.nov. (p. 97)   
 - Scape about 3X as long as broad and mostly dark brown; mesoscutum and scutellum matt, both with similar longitudinally elongate finely striate to striate reticulate sculpture............................................................................................................. 10   
 10 (9) Clava more than 4X as long as broad and 1.25X as long as pedicel and funicle combined (Fig. 215); funicle with F6 slightly longer than broad; ovipositor more than 1.3X as long as mid tibia............................................................. umbro sp.nov. (p. 99)   
 - Clava less than 4X as long as broad and about as long as pedicel and funicle combined (Fig. 219); funicle with F6 slightly transverse; ovipositor less than 1.3X as long as mid tibia.......................................................................... cyathus sp.nov. (p. 101)   
11 (1). All funicle segments at least 1.5X as long as broad (Figs 224, 231)............................ 12  
- At least F1 or F3 quadrate or transverse (e.g. Figs 241, 247, 251, 261, 273).............. 13  
 12 (11) Scape generally pale orange; funicle with F1 a little narrower than pedicel (Fig. 224), segments relatively slender and becoming conspicuously broader distad, F6 nearly 1.5X as wide as F1; hind coxa white; gaster ventrally pale orange; scutellum with 4 pairs of long setae (Fig. 229)............................................ xero sp.nov. (p. 103)   
 - Scape generally dark brown; funicle with F1 at least as wide as pedicel (Fig. 231), segments not becoming broader distad; hind coxa brown; gaster ventrally brown; scutellum with 3 pairs of long setae (Fig. 230).............. xylomus sp.nov. (p. 105)   
13 (11) Mid tibia completely white to pale yellow................................................................... 14  
- Mid tibia partially dark brown, at least with a subbasal brown ring............................ 16  
 14 (13) Mid and hind legs at least partially dark brown....................... jacintha sp.nov. (p. 107)   
- Legs, including coxae, completely white to pale orange.............................................. 15
description: Published as part of Noyes, John Stuart, 2023, ENCYRTIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 4 Subfamily Encyrtinae: tribes Arrhenophagini, Habrolepidini, Cerapterocerini, Cheiloneurini, Trechnitini, Cercobelini, Polaszekiini, Protyndarichoidini, Gahaniellini and Syrphophagini (part), mainly primary parasitoids and hyperparasitoids of Coccoidea and Psylloidea (Hemiptera), pp. 1-921 in Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 2 (11) on pages 84-85, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8074943