Ablerus

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Ablerus
Ablerus atomon Soderholm, Max, CC-BY-SA 4.0.jpg
Female Ablerus atomon
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Azotidae
Nikolskaya & Yasnosh, 1966
Genus: Ablerus
Howard, 1894
Type species
Centrodora clisiocampae
Ashmead, 1894
Species

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Synonyms [1]
  • AzotusHoward 1898
  • DimacrocerusBrethes 1914
  • MyocnemellaGirault, 1913
Female Ablerus atomon, wing detail Ablerus atomon wing detail Soderholm, Max, CC-BY-SA 4.0.jpg
Female Ablerus atomon , wing detail

Ablerus is the only genus in the family Azotidae (in Superfamily Chalcidoidea). The genus was created by the American entomologist Leland Ossian Howard in 1894 for the species named in that year by William Harris Ashmead as Centrodora clisiocampae. The genus Azotus was synonymized with Ablerus by Alexandre Arsène Girault in 1913 and Hyatt synonymized Myocnemella with Ablerus in 1994, leaving Ablerus as the sole genus within the subfamily Azotinae (in family Aphelinidae). Azotinae was elevated in rank in 2013 to become the monotypic family Azotidae. [2]

Contents

These tiny wasps are normally hyperparasitoids and are associated with the Aleyrodidae and Coccoidea as well as the eggs of a variety of other insects. Overall there are over 90 species of Ablerus. [3] [4]

Species

These species belong to the genus Ablerus: [5] [6]

See also

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References

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  2. Heraty, John M.; Burks, Roger A.; Cruaud, Astrid; Gibson, Gary A. P.; et al. (2013). "A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)". Cladistics. 29 (5): 466–542. doi: 10.1111/cla.12006 . PMID   34798768.
  3. S. Abd-Rhadou (2014). "Ablerus Howard (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) of Egypt with new species, Ablerus aegypticus sp.nov" (PDF). International Journal of Fauna and Biological Studies. 1 (5): 10–12.
  4. Zhu Hong Wang; Jian Huang; Andrew Polaszek (2016). "The Species of Genus Ablerus Howard (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Azotidae) from China, with Description of a New Species". Florida Entomologist. 99 (3): 395–405. doi: 10.1653/024.099.0310 . S2CID   89442142.
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  7. AvendañO, José M.; PicóN-RenteríA, Patricio; Kresslein, Robert L.; Herrera, Henri W. (2024-06-20). "First record of the family Azotidae from Ecuador, with a description of a new species of Ablerus Howard (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Azotidae) from the Galapagos Islands". Zootaxa. 5471 (4): 473–481. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5471.4.6. ISSN   1175-5334.