Ablerus

Ablerus is a genus of chalcid wasps belonging to the family Aphelinidae. 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. 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.[2][3]

Ablerus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Aphelinidae
Subfamily: Azotinae
Genus: Ablerus
Howard, 1894
Type species
Centrodora clisiocampae
Ashmead, 1894
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Azotus Howard 1898
  • Dimacrocerus Brethes 1914
  • Myocnemella Girault, 1913

Species

Some of the species included within the genus Ablerus are listed below:

  • Ablerus aegypticus Abd-Rabou, 2014
  • Ablerus americanus Girault, 1916
  • Ablerus aonidiellae Hayat, 1974
  • Ablerus clisiocampae (Ashmead, 1894)
  • Ablerus dozieri (Darling and Johnson, 1984)
  • Ablerus fasciarius Wang, Huang & Polaszek, 2016
  • Ablerus macrochaeta Silvestri, 1927
  • Ablerus peruvianus Girault, 1916
  • Ablerus saintpierrei Girault, 1913
  • Ablerus socratis Girault, 1931

See also
  • List of organisms named after celebrities

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.


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