Family APHELINIDAE


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July 2012 - Danielle N. Stringer, Sarah Mantel, John T. Jennings & Andrew D. Austin, Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and the School of Earth and Environmental Science, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Introduction

The Aphelinidae are a medium-sized family of chalcids that are often overlooked due to their extremely small size (0.5–1.5 mm). They are characterised by the antenna having four or less funicular segments, the tarsi with 4–5 segments, the fore tibial spur large, curved and bifid, the metasoma broadly joined to the thorax (not petiolate), and the notauli complete, straight, deep, and widely separated posteriorly (generally by more than the length of the scutellum).

Aphelinids are commonly reared from a large variety of homopteran hosts. Most are primary ecto- or endoparasitoids of Hemiptera (bugs): Sternorrhyncha (especially Coccoidea, Aleyrodoidea, Aphidoidea). However, others attack eggs of these groups or of Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets), and still others are obligatory or facultative hyperparasitoids. A number of these are of particular interest because the males and females of the same species may develop in very different ways. In those species for which the biology has been well studied, the females are always primary endoparasitoids. The males, however, may develop as primary ectoparasitoids on the same host, as hyperparasitoids on their own species, as facultative hyperparasitoids on their own or other species, or as obligate hyperparasitoids on other species. There are many examples of aphelinids being used successfully in classical biological control, and this family claims more such successes than any other group of entomophagous insects.

The subfamilial classification has by no means been resolved adequately, and authors have recognised between three and seven subfamilies. The majority of aphelinids belong to the subfamilies Aphelininae (antenna with six or less segments and linea calva present) and Coccophaginae (antenna with 7–9 segments and linea calva absent). There are no keys to Australian genera, however Hayat (1983) produced a key to world genera.

Kim and Heraty (2012) reviewed the world genera of Aphelinae, presented identification keys and a phylogeny for 16 genera, including four that were new.

 

General References

Hayat, M. 1983. The genera of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera) of the World. Systematic Entomology 8: 63-102

Kim, J.-W. & Heraty, J. 2012. A phylogenetic analysis of the genera of Aphelinae (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), with a generic key and descriptions of new taxa. Systematic Entomology 37: 497-549

Viggiani, G. 1984. Bionomics of the Aphelinidae. Annual Review of Entomology 29: 257-276

 

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Subfamily Aphelininae

Introduction

Kim and Heraty (2012) reviewed the world genera of Aphelinae, presented identification keys and a phylogeny for 16 genera, including four that were new.

 

ID Keys

See Kim & Heraty (2012: 517).

 

General References

Kim, J.-W. & Heraty, J. 2012. A phylogenetic analysis of the genera of Aphelinae (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), with a generic key and descriptions of new taxa. Systematic Entomology 37: 497-549

 

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Genus Aphelinus Dalman, 1820

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania


IBRA

ACT: South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NSW: Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

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Species Aphelinus dies Girault, 1913

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

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Species Aphelinus hordei Kurdjumov, 1913

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory


Extra Distribution Information

Biological control agent for aphids

Introduced from Ukraine.


IBRA

ACT: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Distribution References

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Species Aphelinus literatus Girault, 1915

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

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Species Aphelinus mali (Haldeman, 1851)

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

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Species Aphelinus niger Girault, 1913

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

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Species Aphelinus nox Girault, 1913

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

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Species Aphelinus pax Girault, 1913

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

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Species Aphelinus subauriceps Girault, 1929

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Distribution References

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Species Aphelinus taurus Girault, 1932

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


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Species Aphelinus uncinctiventris Girault, 1932

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

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Genus Aphytis Howard, 1900

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia


IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Qld: Desert Uplands (DEU), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Wet Tropics (WT) ; WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

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Species Aphytis angeloni (Girault, 1932)

 

Generic Combinations

 

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Species Aphytis chilensis Howard, 1900

 

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Species Aphytis chrysomphali (Mercet, 1912)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Biological control of California red scale (Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell))

Introduced from Spain.


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Species Aphytis columbi (Girault, 1932)

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Generic Combinations

 

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Species Aphytis diaspidis (Howard, 1881)

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Generic Combinations

 

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Species Aphytis holoxanthus DeBach, 1960

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Species Aphytis ignotus Compere, 1955

Distribution

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New South Wales


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Species Aphytis keatsi (Girault, 1919)

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

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Species Aphytis landii Rosen & DeBach, 1986

Distribution

States

New South Wales


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


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Species Aphytis lepidosaphes Compere, 1955

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Species Aphytis lingnanensis Compere, 1955

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Species Aphytis maculatipes (Girault, 1917)

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

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Species Aphytis melinus DeBach, 1959

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Species Aphytis minutissimus (Girault, 1913)

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

Qld: Desert Uplands (DEU)

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Species Aphytis newtoni (Girault, 1913)

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

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Species Aphytis perissoptroides (Girault, 1915)

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


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Qld: Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

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Species Aphytis ruskini (Girault, 1915)

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


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Qld: Desert Uplands (DEU)

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Species Aphytis ulianovi Girault, 1932

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.


IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

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Genus Centrodora Förster, 1878

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania


IBRA

ACT, Qld, Tas: Flinders (FLI), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE) ; NSW: Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Desert Uplands (DEU), Wet Tropics (WT)

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Note: the generation of this complete preview for APHELINIDAE was cancelled at Centrodora Förster, 1878 owing to the initation of another complete preview for PORTUNOIDEA Rafinesque, 1815. Only one complete preview may be executed at a time. Previews were generated for 33 of 280 taxa.