Coccidoxenoides perminutus Girault (=Pauridia peregrina Timberlake, Coccidoxenoides peregrinus (Timberlake))

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae: Tetracneminae

Body more or less completely black or dark brown with metallic reflections. Antenna 11-segmented, funicle 6-segmented, funicular segments 1-5 distinctly transverse, somewhat flattened, segment 6 slightly longer than 4+5, club 3-segmented in female and single-segmented in male. Mesoscutum with notaular lines present in anterior third, with strong reticulate sculpture. Scutellum distinctly, but slightly less strongly sculptured throughout. Fore wing hyaline, area behind venation and proximal part of parastigma setose, parastigma distinctly swollen, marginal vein longer than broad, postmarginal vein distinctly shorter than stigmal vein.

Only species known of Coccidoxenoides, commonly associated with Planococcus spp.

    Antenna and fore wing venation
  Head and thorax, dorsal view
   Adult female - dorsal and lateral view

       Adult on Planococcus citri
   Adult, dorsal view

India (Karnatka; West Bengal), Pakistan, Australia, USA (Hawaii), widely distributed in the circumtropical and subtropical regions of the world (Hayat, 2006).

Parasitic on Planococcus citri (Risso), P. lilacinus (Cockerell), Ferrisia virgata (Cockerell), and Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) (Hayat, 2006). See Universal Chalcidoidea Database for complete list of hosts and associated plants.