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Aphelininae

Aphelinine wasps of Africa and Madagascar 

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Aphelinidae)

Classification

 

Aphelinus Dalman, 1820   

 

Aphytis Howard, 1900   

 

Centrodora Förster, 1878   

Marietta Motschulsky, 1863   

  Noyesaphytis Polaszek & Woolley, 2020
 

Samariola Hayat, 1983

Distribution Worldwide.
Biology Parasitoids or hyperparasitoids of insect eggs, larvae or nymphs.

References

Annecke HP, Insley DP. 1972. The species of Marietta and a new Centrodora from South Africa (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 35: 1-15. Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Heraty, J.M., Burks, R.A., Cruaud, A., Gibson, G.A.P., Liljeblad, J., Munro, J., Rasplus, J.-Y., Delvare, G., Janšta, P., Gumovsky, A., Huber, J., Woolley, J.B., Krogmann, L., Heydon, S., Polaszek, A., Schmidt, S., Darling, D.C., Gates, M.W., Mottern, J., Murray, E., Dal Molin, A., Triapitsyn, S., Baur, H., Pinto, J.D., van Noort, S., George, J. & Yoder, M. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Cladistics 29: 466–542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12006

Hoddle, C., Hoddle, M. & Triapitsyn, S. 2013. Marietta leopardina (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) and Aprostocetus (Aprostocetus) sp. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) are Obligate Hyperparasitoids of Tamarixia radiata (Eulophidae) and Diaphorencyrtus aligarhensis (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Florida Entomologist 96: 643-646. http://dx.doi.org/10.1653/024.096.0236

Polaszek A, Lahey Z & Woolley JB. 2020. Noyesaphytis (Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) – an unusual new genus from Madagascar, and a reassessment of Aphelininae classification based on morphology. Journal of Natural History 54: 647-664. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1773559

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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