Austroencyrtus

Austroencyrtus is a genus of parasitic wasps.

Austroencyrtus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Encyrtidae
Subfamily:	Encyrtinae
Genus:	Austroencyrtus Girault, 1923[1][2]
Type species
Austroencyrtus annulicornis Girault, 1923
Synonyms[1]
Paracerchysius Liao and Tachikawa, 1984 Zamenhofella Girault, 1941

Taxonomic history and synonyms

In 1923, Alexandre Arsène Girault described the species A. annulicornis and circumscribed the new genus Austroencyrtus for it.^[2] In 1941, Girault created a new genus, Zamenhofella for another new species, Z. voltai.^[3] The genus Zamenhofella was classified as a junior synonym of Austroencyrtus in 1997 by Edward Dahms and Gordon Gordh.^[4] Liao Dingxi and Tetsusaburo Tachikawa [Wikidata] circumscribed the genus Paracerchysius for their new species P. ceresii in 1984; Tachikawa synonymized this genus with Austroencyrtus the following year^[4] following the suggestion of Vladimir A. Trjapitzin [ru].^[5]

Species

As of 2017^[update], the following species are recognized:^[1]

• Austroencyrtus annulicornis Girault, 1923
• Austroencyrtus ceresii (Liao & Tachikawa, 1984)
• Austroencyrtus voltai (Girault, 1941)

Former and undescribed species

In 1984, John Noyes (entomologist) and Mohammad Hayat [Wikidata] included A. guamensis (Fullaway, 1946), which they had transferred from Cerchysius.^[6] Noyes and Hayat also claimed there were at least three additional undescribed species in Austroencyrtus from Papua New Guinea and New Hebrides.^[6]

Distribution

Species in this genus are found in Australia^[3] and China.^[4]