Austroencyrtus

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Austroencyrtus
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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]
  • ParacerchysiusLiao and Tachikawa, 1984
  • ZamenhofellaGirault, 1941

Austroencyrtus is a genus of parasitic wasps.

Taxonomic history and synonyms

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  [ Wikidata ] 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  [ ru ]. [5]

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Species

As of 2017, the following species are recognized: [1]

Former and undescribed species

In 1984, John Noyes (entomologist) and Mohammad Hayat  [ Wikidata ] 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]

Distribution

Species in this genus are found in Australia [3] and China. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Noyes, J. S. (September 2017). "Austroencyrtus". Universal Chalcidoidea Database. The Natural History Museum. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 Girault, A. A. (1923). "New Encyrtidae from Australia—II (Hymenoptera)" (PDF). Insecutor Inscitiæ Menstruus. 11 (7–9): 141–142. Available at the Internet Archive .
  3. 1 2 Girault, A. A. (1941). "A new genus of Queensland Chalcidoidea" (PDF). The Queensland Naturalist. 11: 132–134. BHL page 50819220.
  4. 1 2 3 Zhang, Yanzhou; Huang, Dawei (2004). A Review and an Illustrated Key to Genera of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from China. Beijing: Science Press. pp. 33–34. ISBN   978-1-880132-96-8.
  5. Tachikawa, T. (1985). "On the genus Paracerchysius Liao et Tachikawa (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea-Encyrtidae)". Transactions of the Shikoku Entomological Society. 17: 95.
  6. 1 2 Noyes, John S.; Hayat, M. (1984). "A review of the genera of Indo-Pacific Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology. 48 (3): 238. BHL page 2288642.