Psyllaephagus Ashmead, 1900

McClelland, Alana R., Moore, Matthew R., Bremer, Jonathan S., Talamas, Elijah J., Halbert, Susan E., Singarayan, Virgine T., Brown, Bradley T., Purcell, Matthew F., Brookes, Dean R. & Hentz, Matthew G., 2025, You can run, but you will never escape: A new species of Psyllaephagus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae), parasitoid of the classical biological control agent Boreioglycaspis melaleucae (Moore) (Hemiptera, Aphalaridae) in Florida, USA, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 98, pp. 95-116 : 95-116

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.98.133593

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A00A5082-A1D0-4740-9108-04A848D2313B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14846374

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CBEE357D-7F4B-5882-BDB2-D4ADC927B482

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scientific name

Psyllaephagus Ashmead, 1900
status

 

Genus Psyllaephagus Ashmead, 1900 View in CoL

Type species.

Encyrtus pachypsyllae Howard, 1885 , by original designation (U. S Dept. Agr. Bur. Ent. Bull. No. 5, 15). For generic synonymy see Noyes (1984) and Dahms (1997).

Note.

Psyllaephagus migrator sp. nov. clearly belongs in the genus Psyllaephagus based on the key to genera in Noyes (1984), characterized by the following characters: brightly metallic green, blue-green or copper colour; punctiform marginal vein of the fore wing which is not more than twice as long as broad; fore wing with stigmal vein longer than postmarginal vein; mandibles with one or two teeth and a truncation; a hypopygium that does not extend more than two-thirds along the gaster.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Encyrtidae