Bibliography for Aphelininae

• Asante, S.K.; Danthanarayana, W. 1993. Prospects of Aphelinus mali (Hald.) as a biological control agent for the woolly apple aphid, Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausm.) in the northern tablelands of New South Wales. pp.206-208 in Corey, S.A., Dall, D.J. & Milne, W.M. (eds). Pest Control and Sustainable Agriculture. Melbourne : CSIRO xiii 514 pp.
• Ashmead, W.H. 1886. Studies on the North American Chalcididae, with descriptions of new species from Florida. (Paper no. 7). Transactions of the Entomological Society of America 13: 125-135
• Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Classification of the chalcid flies of the superfamily Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 1(4): 225-551
• Bengston, M. 1965. Control of woolly aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum Hausm.) in the Stanthorpe district, Queensland. Queensland Journal of Agricultural and Animal Science 22(4): 469-473
• Campbell, M.M. 1976. Colonization of Aphytis melinus DeBach (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae) in Aonidiella aurantii (Mask.) (Hemiptera, Coccidae) on citrus in South Australia. Bulletin of Entomological Research 65(4): 659-668
• Compere, H. 1925. A new genus and species of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera) from China. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 51: 129-134
• Compere, H. 1936. Notes on the classification of the Aphelinidae with descriptions of new species. University of California Publications in Entomology 6: 277-322
• Compere, H. 1955. A systematic study of the genus Aphytis Howard (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae) with description of new species. University of California Publications in Entomology 10: 271-319
• Cumber, R.A. 1967. Factors influencing egg survival of Scolypopa australis Walker (Hemiptera - Homoptera: Ricaniidae) in the Sydney area (N.S.W. Australia). New Zealand Journal of Science 10(3): 639-643
• Dahms, E.C. 1983. A checklist of the types of Australian Hymenoptera described by Alexandre Aresene Girault: II. Preamble and Chalcidoidea species A-E with advisory notes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 21(1): 1-255
• Dalman, J.W. 1820. Försök till Uppställning af Insect-familjen Pteromalini, i synnerhet med afseen de på de i Sverige funne Arter. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 41: 123-174, 177-182, Tab VII-VIII
• DeBach, P. 1959. New species and strains of Aphytis (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) parasitic on the California red scale, Aonidiella aurantii (Mask.), in the Orient. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 52: 354-362 [Date published 30/07/1959]
• DeBach, P. 1960. The importance of taxonomy to biological control as illustrated by the cryptic history of Aphytis holoxanthus n.sp. (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), a parasite of Chrysomphalus aonidum, and Aphytis coheni n.sp., a parasite of Aonidiella aurantii. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 53: 701-705 [Date published 21/12/1960]
• DeBach, P. & Rosen, D. 1976. Twenty new species of Aphytis (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) with notes and new combinations. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 69: 541-545 [Date published 17/05/1976]
• De Gregorio, A. 1914. Nuovo Aphelinus parassita del Chrysomphalus dictyospermi. Nuovi Annali di Agricoltura Siciliano 3(4)
• De Santis, L. 1948. Estudio monográfico de los afelínidos de la República Argentina (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Revista del Museo de La Plata 5: 23-280
• De Santis, L. 1981. Luca biologica contra las Vinchucas (Hem. Reduvioidea): El empleo de insectos entomofagus. Revista del Museo de La Plata, Sección Zoologia 12(123): 239-260
• Dodd, A.P. 1917. Records and descriptions of Australian Chalcidoidea. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 41: 344-368
• Dodd, A.P. in Girault, A.A. 1915. Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea IV. Supplement. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 3: 180-299
• Förster, A. 1856. Hymenopterologische Studien. 2. Chalcidiae und Proctotrupii. Privately Published. 152 pp.
• Förster, A. 1878. Kleine monographien parasitischer Hymenopteren. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 35: 42-82
• Fry, J.M. 1989. Natural enemy databank, 1987. A catalogue of natural enemies of arthropods derived from records in the CIBC Natural Enemy Databank. Wallingford, Oxford, UK : CAB International 185 pp.
• Gahan, A.B. 1924. Some new parasitic Hymenoptera with notes on several described forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 65: 1-23 [Date published 19/07/1924]
• Girault 1911. Notes on the Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of several new genera and species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 19: 175-189
• Girault, A.A. 1909. A new chalcidoid of the eulophid genus Aphelinus Dalman, parasitic on Schizoneura crataegi Oestlund. Psyche (Cambridge) 16: 29-31
• Girault, A.A. 1913. A few new chalcidoid Hymenoptera from Queensland, Australia. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society (new series) 11: 35-48 [Date published 29/12/1913]
• Girault, A.A. 1913. Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea — IV. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 2: 140-296 [Date published 10/12/1913]
• Girault, A.A. 1913. Some chalcidoid Hymenoptera from north Queensland. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79: 70-90 [Date published 30/09/1913]
• Girault, A.A. 1915. Australian Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea — VII. The family Encyrtidae with descriptions of new genera and species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 4: 1-184 [Date published 4/06/1915]
• Girault, A.A. 1917. Descriptiones stellarum novarum. Privately Published. 22 pp.
• Girault, A.A. 1917. Some new Australian chalcid-flies, mostly of the family Encyrtidae. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. Washington 5: 29-37 [Date published 6/04/1917]
• Girault, A.A. 1919. Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea nova Australiensis. Privately Published. 3 pp.
• Girault, A.A. 1921. Miscellaneous species of chalcid-flies from Australia (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae). Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. Washington 9: 186-191 [Date published 10/12/1921]
• Girault, A.A. 1922. New chalcid flies from Australia. The Entomologist 55: 205-208 [Date published 30/09/1922]
• Girault, A.A. 1922. New chalcid flies from eastern Australia (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae). II. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. Washington 10: 100-108 [Date published 3/04/1922]
• Girault, A.A. 1923. Microscopitis, womanitis and new hexapods. Privately Published. 7 pp.
• Girault, A.A. 1923. New Encyrtidae from Australia — II. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. Washington 11: 141-148 [Date published 5/10/1923]
• Girault, A.A. 1924. Homo perniciosus and new Hymenoptera. Privately Published. 4 pp.
• Girault, A.A. 1924. Notes and description of Australian chalcid flies. I. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus. Washington 12: 1-9 [Date published 2/01/1924]
• Girault, A.A. 1929. Description of a case of lunacy in Homo and of new six-legged articulates. Brisbane : Published privately 4 pp.
• Girault, A.A. 1932. New lower Hymenoptera from Australia and India. Brisbane : Privately published 6 pp.
• Girault, A.A. 1933. Some beauties inhabitant not of commercial boudoirs but of natures bosom, notably new insects. Privately Published. 5 pp.
• Gordh, G.; Rosen, D. 1973. A new genus and species of Aphelinidae from Greece (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 36(2): 275-279
• Haldeman, S.S. 1851. [Eriophilus mali]. Pennsylvania Farm Journal 1: 1-380
• Hayat, M. 1981. Taxonomic notes on Indian Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). III. Colemania 1: 13-34 [Date published 22/04/1981]
• Hayat, M. 1982. On the taxonomic status of Syediella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Colemania 1(3): 169-170
• Hayat, M. 1983. The genera of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera) of the World. Systematic Entomology 8: 63-102
• Hayat, M. 1986. Family Aphelinidae. In Subba Rao, B.R. & Hayat, M. (eds) The Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of India and the adjacent countries. Part II. Oriental Insects 20: 143-171, 310 [Date published 31/03/1986]
• Hayat, M. 1986. Notes on some species of Marietta (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), with a key to World species. Colemania 2: 1-18
• Hayat, M. 1987. Description of a new species of Centrodora Foerster with notes on some other aphelinids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft / Bulletin of the Société Entomologique Suisse 60: 319-323
• Hayat, M. 1990. Taxonomic Studies on Aphelinus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) 2. A New Subgenus from India, with Comments on Mesidia and Mesidiopsis. Oriental Insects 24: 253-257
• Hayat, M.; Fatima, K. 1990. Taxonomic studies on Aphelinus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) 1. The Australian species described by A.A. Girault. Oriental Insects 24: 247-252
• Hely, P.C.; Gellatley, J.G. 1962. Experiments on red scale control in coastal New South Wales. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 73(2)
• Herting, B. 1972. Homoptera. pp.37-38 in Herting, B. & Simmonds, F.J. A catalogue of parasites and predators of terrestrial arthropods. U.K. : Farnham Roy. 210 pp.
• Howard, L.O. 1895. Revision of the Aphelininae of North America a subfamily of hymenopterous parasites of the family Chalcididae. Technical Series, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 1: 1-44
• Howard, L.O. 1900. A new genus of Aphelininae from Chile. The Canadian Entomologist 32: 167-168 [Date published 31/05/1900]
• Howard, L.O. 1907. New genera and species of Aphelininae with a revised table of genera. Technical Series, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture 12: 69-88 [Date published 12/07/1907]
• Howard, L.O. 1910. Two new aphelinine parasites of scale insects. Entomological News 21: 162-163
• Howard, L.O. in Comstock, J.H. 1881. (Report of the entomologist for 1880.) Report of the parasites of Coccidae in the collections of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Part III. Report. United States Department of Agriculture. Washington. (Entomology). 1880. 350-372, plates 23, 24
• 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
• Kurdjumov, N.V. 1913. Notes on European species of the genus Aphelinus Dalm., parasitic upon the plant-lice. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 13: 266-270 [Date published 20/10/1913]
• McLaren, I.W. 1971. A comparison of the population growth potential in California red scale, Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell), and yellow scale, A. citrina (Coquillet), on Citrus. Australian Journal of Zoology 189-204
• McLaren, I.W.; Buchanan, G.A. 1973. Parasitism by Aphytis chrysomphali Mercet and A. melinus DeBach of California red scale, Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell), in relation to seasonal availability of suitable stages of the scale. Australian Journal of Zoology 21(1): 111 - 117
• Mercet, R.G. 1912. Los enemigos parásitos de las plantas: Los afelininos [Parasitic enemies of plants: the Aphelinids]. Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales No. 10: 306 pp.
• Mercet, R.G. 1912. Un parasito dell 'pollroig'. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 12: 135-140
• Mercet, R.G. 1927. Calcididos africanos y de la isla de Madera. Eos. Revista Española di Entomologia. Madrid. 3: 489-499
• Mercet, R.G. 1930. Los aphelínidos de España. Revista de Biologia Forestal y Limnologia Ser. B 2(2): 29–106
• Mercet, R.G. 1932. Notas sobre Afelinidos. EOS. Revista Española de Entomología 8: 353-365
• Motschulsky, V. von 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'îIle Ceylan. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 36(3): 1-153
• Nikol'skaya, M.N. 1963. Two new genera of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) bred from Odonaspis secreta (Ckll.) in the Caucasus. 42(1). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (English translation as Entomological Reviews) 42(1): 186–189
• Nowicki, S. 1930. Bemerkungen zu den europäischen Apheliniden-Gattungen (Hym., Chalc.). (Fortsetzung.). Neue Beiträge zur Systematischen Insektenkunde 4(15/16): 177-181
• Otten, E. 1941. Gezogene Chalcididen und ihre Wirte. II. Arbeiten über Morphologische und Taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem 8: 255-266
• Peck, O. 1963. A catalogue of the Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera). The Canadian Entomologist Supplement 30: 1092 pp.
• Perkins, R.C.L. 1906. Leaf-hoppers and their natural enemies (VIII). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 1: 239-267 [Date published 6/01/1906]
• Polaszek, A. 1991. Egg parasitism in Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) with special reference to Centrodora and Encarsia species. Bulletin of Entomological Research 81(1): 97-106
• Polaszek, A.; Hayat, M. 1989. The identity of Paulianaphelinus mariscusae Risbec (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria 'Filippo Silvestri', Portici 46: 21-24
• Prinsloo, G.L.; Neser, O.C. 1994. The southern African species of Aphelinus Dalman (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), parasitoids of aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea). Journal of African Zoology 108(2): 143-162
• Risbec, J. 1957. Hyménoptères Proctotrupidae et Chalcidoidea. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar 8: 321-366
• Rondani, C. 1877. Vesparia parasita no vel cognita observata et descripta. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 9: 166-213
• Rosen, D. & DeBach, P. 1976. Species of Aphytis of the World. The Hague : Dr. W. Junk BV Publishers.
• Rosen, D. & DeBach, P. 1979. Species of Aphytis of the World (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Series Entomologica 17: 801 pp.
• Rosen, D. & DeBach, P. 1979. Species of Aphytis of the world (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Series Entomologica: vol. 17. The Hague, Boston, London : Dr. W. Junk 801 pp.
• Rosen, D. & DeBach, P. 1986. Three new species of Aphytis (Hym.: Aphelinidae), parasites of Pseudaulacaspis spp. (Hom.: Diaspididae) in India and Australia. Entomophaga 31: 139-151
• Rust, E.W. 1915. Three new species of Aphelinus. Entomological News 26(2): 73-77
• Shafee, S.A. 1970. New genus of Aphelinidae recorded from Ootacamund (India) (Hymenoptera). Mushi 43: 143-147
• Smith, D. 1978. Biological control of scale insects on citrus in south-eastern Queensland. 2. Control of the circular black scale Chrysomphalus ficus Ashmead, by the introduced parasite, Aphytis holoxanthus De Bach. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17(4): 373-377
• Smith, D. 1978. Biological control of scale insects on citrus in south-eastern Queensland. I. Control of red scale Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17(4): 367-371
• Smith, D.; Elder, R. 1993. Integrated pest management in pawpaws. pp. 116-117 in Corey, S.A.; Dall, D.J.; Milne, W.M. Pest control and sustainable agriculture. Melbourne, Australia : CSIRO 514 pp.
• Smith, D.; Freebairn, C.G.; Papacek, D.F. 1996. The effect of host density and parasitoid inoculum size on the mass production of Leptomastix dactylopii Howard (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) and Aphytis lingnanensis Compere (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) in Queensland. General and Applied Entomology 27: 57-64
• Timberlake, P.H. 1926. New species of Hawaiian chalcid-flies (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 6: 305-320
• Valentine, E.W. 1966. A new species of Centrodora (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) parasitic upon the eggs of Scolypopa australis Walker (Hymenoptera Ricaniidae). New Zealand Journal of Science 9: 331-335
• Walker, F. 1839. Monographia Chalciditum. Privately Published. 333 pp.
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