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Anagyrus Howard

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

Anagyrus Howard, 1896.

Classification
Anagyrus species (Tanzania)
 

Anagyrus abyssinicus Compere, 1939 (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana)

Anagyrus aberiae Guerrieri, 2018 (South Africa)

Anagyrus agraensis Saraswat, 1975 (South Africa. Also Indo-Australasian, Oriental and Palaearctic regions) 

Anagyrus amnicus Prinsloo, 1985 (Namibia) 

Anagyrus amoenus Compere, 1939 (Ivory Coast, South Africa. Also Oriental region) 

Anagyrus antoniae Guerrieri, 2018 (South Africa)

Anagyrus arambourgi Risbec, 1955 (Kenya) 

Anagyrus arenaria Prinsloo, 1985 (Namibia) 

Anagyrus aurantifrons Compere, 1926 (Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda) 

Anagyrus bambeyi Risbec, 1951 (Senegal) 

Anagyrus beneficians Compere, 1943  (Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Togo, Uganda)

Anagyrus bugandaensis Compere, 1939 (Ivory Coast, Kenya, Uganda) 

Anagyrus dactylopii (Howard, 1898) (South Africa. Also Neotropical, Oriental, Palaearctic regions) 

Anagyrus diversicornis (Howard, 1894) (Benin. Also Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, and Palaearctic regions) 

Anagyrus gracilis (Hayat, 1970) (Madagascar. Also Oriental region) 

Anagyrus haroldi Noyes & Hayat, 1994 (South Africa, Uganda) 

Anagyrus indicus (Subba Rao, 1967) (Saudi Arabia. Also Oriental region)

Anagyrus kivuensis Compere, 1939 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, India, Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda) 

Anagyrus lopezi (De Santis, 1964) (Benin, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea - Bissau, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia. Also Neotropical region)

Anagyrus mirzai Agarwal & Alam, 1959 (Congo, Gabon, India, Jordan, Malawi, Pakistan, South Africa)

Anagyrus nigrescens Compere, 1939 (South Africa)   

Anagyrus pseudococci (Girault, 1915) (Democratic Republic of Congo; worldwide except Australasian) 

Anagyrus pullus Compere, 1939 (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana) 

Anagyrus rubellus (Annecke, 1974) (South Africa)   

Anagyrus saccharicola Timberlake, 1932 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal.  Worldwide except Australasian) 

Anagyrus siccus (Prinsloo & Annecke, 1976) (Namibia)

Anagyrus subflaviceps (Girault, 1915) (South Africa, Zimbabwe. Also Australasian, Oriental, and Palaearctic regions)

Anagyrus subproximus (Silvestri, 1915) (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal. Also Oriental region) 

Anagyrus swezeyi Timberlake, 1919 (South Africa, Zimbabwe. Also Australasian, Oriental, and Nearctic regions)

Distribution

Cosmopolitan.

Biology

Parasitoids of Coccidae, Dactylopiidae, Eriococcidae and Pseudococcidae (Hemiptera).

References

Annecke, D.P. & Insley, H.P. 1971. Catalogue of Ethiopian Encyrtidae and Aphelinidae. Entomology Memoir of the Department of Agricultural Technical Services of the Republic of South Africa 23: 1-53.

Boucek, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. pp. 832pp. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, U.K., Cambrian News Ltd; Aberystwyth, Wales.

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.

Gibson, G.A.P., Huber, J.T., Woolley, J.B. (Editors) 1997. Annotated keys to the genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) :794pp National Research Council Research Press, Ottawa, Canada.

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

Iwabuchi K. 2019. Polyembryony in Encyrtid Parasitoids. In: Polyembryonic Insects. Entomology Monographs. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0958-2_2

Noyes, J.S. & Prinsloo, G.L. 1998. A review of the Afrotropical and Malagasy taxa of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) described by J. Risbec (1949-1959). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 34(1): 71-97.

Prinsloo, G.L. 1983. A parasitoid-host index of Afrotropical Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Entomology Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture, Republic of South Africa 60: 1-35.

Prinsloo, G.L. 1997. Parasitoids. Encyrtidae. World Crop Pests 7B:78-85

Prinsloo, G.L. & D.P. Annecke. 1979. A key to the genera of Encyrtidae from the Ethiopian region, with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 42: 349-382.

Credits

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

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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