Neococcidencyrtus Compere 1928
Creators: name: Noyes, John Stuart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Encyrtidae
Neococcidencyrtus

description: Key to Costa Rican species of Neococcidencyrtus   
 (Females)   
1. Hind femur orange, at most with a slightly oblique, dorsal, dark brown, subapical spot............................................................................................................................... 2  
- Hind femur mostly dark brown, sometimes mixed dark orange-brown or orange at apices................................................................................................................... 5  
 2(1) Face (Fig. 295) without a transverse brown band above toruli.................................................................................................................................. mansua sp.nov. (p. 128)   
- Face (Figs 300, 309, 312) with a distinct brown band above toruli, level with top of interantennal prominence..................................................................................... 3  
 3(2) Fore wing (Fig. 302) relatively slender, more than 2.6X as long as broad; broadest point of hyaline band distad of venation about 4.5X as wide as narrowest point; dark brown rings on hind tibia connected externally by a narrow brown streak; gonostylus longer than mid tibial spur................................ grias sp.nov. (p. 130)   
- Fore wing (Fig. 310, 315) not more than 2.5X as long as broad; broadest point of hyaline band distad of venation about 2.5X as wide as narrowest point; dark brown rings on hind tibia not connected by a dark brown streak externally; gonostylus shorter than mid tibial spur.............................................................................................. 4  
 4(3) Head (Fig. 309) less than 5.5X as wide as frontovertex; occiput without a brown spot above the foramen............................................................... drysus Noyes (p. 131)   
 - Head (Fig. 312) at least 6X as wide as frontovertex; occiput with a brown spot above the foramen........................................................................... cyclope sp.nov. (p. 132)   
5(1) Hind tibia with a pair of distinct brown bands............................................................... 6  
- Hind tibia completely dark brown, without brown bands.............................................. 7  
 6(5) Head (Fig. 322) less than 5X as wide as frontovertex; antenna (Fig. 317) with funicle segments transverse or subquadrate, linear sensilla present on at most F4-F6; fore wing (Fig. 319) with linea clava entire............................ hilaria sp.nov. (p. 134)   
 - Head (Fig. 328) more than 5X as wide as frontovertex; antenna (Fig. 323) with all funicle segments longer than broad, linear sensilla present on F3-F6; fore wing (Fig. 326) with linea calva interrupted by at least 2 setae................... orion sp.nov. (p. 135)   
 7(5) Fore wing hyaline............................................................... crouzelae De Santis (p. 137)   
- Fore wing with a distinct infuscate pattern..................................................................... 8  
 8(7) Antenna with F3 longer than broad, clearly larger than F1 or F2; head more than 3.5X as wide as frontovertex; mandible with three teeth, lowest tooth acute........................................................................................................... dracaenus sp.nov. (p. 138)   
 - Antenna with F3 quadrate or transverse, subequal in size to F1 and F2; head less than 3.5X as wide as frontovertex; mandible with one lower tooth, a short acute middle tooth and a broad, straight truncation............................ plinthus sp.nov. (p. 140)
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 127-128, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8074943