A new parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) of a soft scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccidae) from Mexico
S.N. Myartseva, D.A. García-Guerrero, E. Ruíz-Cancino & J.M. Coronado-Blanco
Abstract. A new aphelinid species, Mexidalgus veracruzanus sp. nov., was reared from Mesolecanium mayteni (Hempel, 1900) (Hemiptera: Coccidae) from the State of Veracruz, Mexico. This coccid species, previously known only from Brazil, is a new record for Mexico and a new host for the aphelinid genus Mexidalgus Myartseva, 2014.
Key words: Mexico, host, Aphelinidae, Coccidae, Mexidalgus, Mesolecanium, new species
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2014, 23(2): 264-268 ▪ Published in print 25 December 2014
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2014.23.2.264 ▪ Open full article 
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