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Genus of chalcid wasps
Female
Ablerus atomon , wing detail
Ablerus is the only genus in the family Azotidae (in Superfamily
Chalcidoidea ). The genus was created by the
American entomologist
Leland Ossian Howard in 1894 for the species named in that year by
William Harris Ashmead as Centrodora clisiocampae . The genus Azotus was synonymized with Ablerus by
Alexandre Arsène Girault in 1913 and Hyatt synonymized Myocnemella with Ablerus in 1994, leaving Ablerus as the sole genus within the subfamily Azotinae (in family
Aphelinidae ). Azotinae was elevated in rank in 2013 to become the monotypic family Azotidae .
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These tiny wasps are normally
hyperparasitoids and are associated with the
Aleyrodidae and
Coccoidea as well as the eggs of a variety of other insects. Overall there are over 90 species of Ablerus .
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Species
These species belong to the genus Ablerus :
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Ablerus aegypticus Abd-Rabou, 2014
Ablerus albicaput Girault, 1924
Ablerus aleuroides (Husain & Agarwal, 1982)
Ablerus aligarhensis (Khan & Shafee, 1976)
Ablerus amarantus Girault, 1932
Ablerus americanus Girault, 1916
Ablerus aonidiellae Hayat, 1974
Ablerus arboris Girault, 1932
Ablerus argentiscapus Girault, 1932
Ablerus atomon (Walker, 1847)
Ablerus baeusoides Girault, 1915
Ablerus beenleighi Girault, 1926
Ablerus bharathius (Subba Rao, 1984)
Ablerus bicinctipes Girault, 1932
Ablerus bidentatus Girault, 1913
Ablerus bifasciatus (Girault, 1913)
Ablerus biguttatibiae Girault, 1924
Ablerus capensis (Howard, 1907)
Ablerus celsus (Walker, 1839)
Ablerus chionaspidis (Howard, 1914)
Ablerus chrysomphali (Ghesquiere, 1960)
Ablerus ciliatus De Santis, 1948
Ablerus clisiocampae (Ashmead, 1894)
Ablerus connectens Silvestri, 1927
Ablerus crassus (De Santis, 1974)
Ablerus delhiensis (Lal, 1938)
Ablerus diana Girault, 1920
Ablerus dozieri (Darling & Johnson, 1984)
Ablerus elegantissimus Girault, 1913
Ablerus elegantulus (Silvestri, 1915)
Ablerus emersoni Girault, 1917
Ablerus fasciarius Wang, Huang & Polaszek, 2016
Ablerus gargarae Hayat, 1998
Ablerus gratus Girault, 1929
Ablerus grotiusi Girault, 1913
Ablerus hastatus Girault, 1932
Ablerus howardii Girault, 1915
Ablerus hyalinus Girault, 1913
Ablerus impunctatipennis Girault, 1917
Ablerus inquirenda Silvestri, 1927
Ablerus lepidus (De Santis, 1974)
Ablerus leucopidis Blanchard, 1942
Ablerus longfellowi Girault, 1913
Ablerus macchiae (Annecke & Insley, 1970)
Ablerus macilentus (De Santis, 1974)
Ablerus macrochaeta Silvestri, 1927
Ablerus magistrettii Blanchard, 1942
Ablerus miricilia Girault, 1929
Ablerus molestus Blanchard, 1936
Ablerus nelsoni Girault, 1921
Ablerus novicornis Girault, 1931
Ablerus nympha Girault, 1913
Ablerus palauensis Doutt, 1951
Ablerus pan Girault, 1913
Ablerus perfuscipennis De Santis, 1954
Ablerus perspeciosus Girault, 1916
Ablerus peruvianus Girault, 1916
Ablerus piceipes Girault, 1913
Ablerus pinifoliae (Mercet, 1912)
Ablerus pius Girault, 1929
Ablerus plesius (Annecke & Insley, 1970)
Ablerus plinii Girault, 1929
Ablerus poincarei Girault, 1913
Ablerus promacchiae Viggiani & Ren, 1993
Ablerus pulcherrimus (Mercet, 1922)
Ablerus pulchriceps Zehntner, 1899
Ablerus pullicornis Girault, 1931
Ablerus pumilus Annecke & Insley, 1970
Ablerus punctatus Girault, 1921
Ablerus rhea Girault, 1929
Ablerus romae Girault, 1932
Ablerus saintpierrei Girault, 1913
Ablerus separaspidis (Annecke & Insley, 1970)
Ablerus sidneyi Girault, 1932
Ablerus similis (De Santis, 1948)
Ablerus socratis Girault, 1931
Ablerus socrus Girault, 1915
Ablerus speciosus Girault, 1913
Ablerus stylatus (Mercet, 1927)
Ablerus totifuscipennis Girault, 1929
Ablerus unnotipennis Girault, 1915
Ablerus venustulus Girault, 1915
Ablerus williamsi (Annecke & Insley, 1970)
See also
References
^ Myartseva, Svetlana N.; Coronado-Blanco, Juana María; Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique (2012).
"El género Ablerus Howard (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) en América del Norte, con la descripción de dos especies nuevas de México" . Acta Zoológica Mexicana . n.s. 28 (2): 449. [
permanent dead link ]
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Heraty, John M.; Burks, Roger A.; Cruaud, Astrid; Gibson, Gary A. P.; et al. (2013).
"A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)" . Cladistics . 29 (5): 466–542.
doi :
10.1111/cla.12006 .
PMID
34798768 .
^ S. Abd-Rhadou (2014).
"Ablerus Howard (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) of Egypt with new species, Ablerus aegypticus sp.nov" (PDF) . International Journal of Fauna and Biological Studies . 1 (5): 10–12.
^ Zhu Hong Wang; Jian Huang; Andrew Polaszek (2016).
"The Species of Genus Ablerus Howard (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Azotidae) from China, with Description of a New Species" . Florida Entomologist . 99 (3): 395–405.
doi :
10.1653/024.099.0310 .
S2CID
89442142 .
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Noyes, J.S. (2018).
"Universal Chalcidoidea Database" . Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2019-07-02 .
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"Ablerus " . GBIF . Retrieved 2020-11-01 .
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