Austroencyrtus
Genus of wasps
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Austroencyrtus is a genus of parasitic wasps.
| Austroencyrtus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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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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 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]
Species
As of 2017[update], the following species are recognized:[1]
- Austroencyrtus annulicornis Girault, 1923
- Austroencyrtus ceresii (Liao & Tachikawa, 1984)
- Austroencyrtus voltai (Girault, 1941)
Former and undescribed species
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]
