Cheiloneurus paralia

Cheiloneurus paralia
female specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Encyrtidae
Genus:	Cheiloneurus
Species:	C. paralia
Binomial name
Cheiloneurus paralia (Walker, 1837) [1]
Synonyms [2]
Encyrtus paraliaWalker, 1837 Encyrtus formosusBoheman Cheiloneurus eriococciAlam, 1957 Cheiloneurus formosusBoheman Cheiloneurus formosus brachypteraHoffer, 1957 Cheiloneurus formosus nigrithoraxHoffer, 1957 Cheiloneurus formosus submacropteraHoffer, 1957 Cheiloneurus mongolicusSzelenyi,1971 Chiloneurus formosus(Boheman) Chiloneurus paralia(Walker)

Cheiloneurus paralia is a species of chalcid wasp in the family Encyrtidae. ^[3] It is found in Europe. ^[4] It is a parasitoid of mealybugs. ^[5]

Taxonomy

This species was first described in 1837 by Francis Walker, within Monographia Chalciditum, and named Encyrtus paralia on the basis of a specimen collected in July from the "south of France". ^[6]

Distribution

This species has been (according to GBIF), observed in: Iran, Norway, UK, Mongolia, Sweden, Hungary, and Greece. ^[4]

References

1. "Monographia Chalciditum (Walker, 1837)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
2. "Universal Chalcidoidea Database". nhm.ac.uk. 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
3. Natalie Dale-Skey; Richard R Askew; John S Noyes; Laurence Livermore; Gavin R Broad (2016). "Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Chalcidoidea and Mymarommatoidea". Biodiversity Data Journal. 4 (4) e8013. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.4.E8013 . ISSN   1314-2828. PMC   4910507 . PMID   27346954.
4. "Search".
5. Hossein Lotfalizadeh; Younes Karimpour; Gérard Delvare; Jean-Yves Rasplus (28 August 2020). "Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) obtained from common reed, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (Poaceae) in Iran with new records and descriptions of two new species". European Journal of Taxonomy (710): 8. doi: 10.5852/EJT.2020.710 . ISSN   2118-9773.
6. Walker, Francis (1837). "Monographia Chalciditum" (PDF). Internet Archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2022-05-26.