Austroencyrtus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Encyrtidae |
Subfamily: | Encyrtinae |
Genus: | Austroencyrtus Girault, 1923 [1] [2] |
Type species | |
Austroencyrtus annulicornis Girault, 1923 | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Austroencyrtus is a genus of parasitic wasps.
In 1923, Alexandre Arsène Girault described the species A. annulicornis and circumscribed the new genus Austroencyrtus for it. [2] In 1941, Girault created a new genus, Zamenhofella for another new species, Z. voltai. [3] The genus Zamenhofella was classified as a junior synonym of Austroencyrtus in 1997 by Edward Dahms and Gordon Gordh. [4] Liao Dingxi and Tetsusaburo Tachikawa circumscribed the genus Paracerchysius for their new species P. ceresii in 1984; Tachikawa synonymized this genus with Austroencyrtus the following year [4] following the suggestion of Vladimir A. Trjapitzin . [5]
As of 2017 [update] , the following species are recognized: [1]
In 1984, John Noyes (entomologist) and Mohammad Hayat included A. guamensis(Fullaway, 1946), which they had transferred from Cerchysius . [6] Noyes and Hayat also claimed there were at least three additional undescribed species in Austroencyrtus from Papua New Guinea and New Hebrides. [6]
Species in this genus are found in Australia [3] and China. [4]