Aphelinoidea

Aphelinoidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Trichogrammatidae
Genus: Aphelinoidea
Girault, 1911
Synonyms

Thalesanna Girault, 1938

Aphelinoidea is a genus of wasps belonging to the family Trichogrammatidae. It was described by A.A. Girault in 1911 in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society.

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution. Several species are egg parasitoids of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and are of interest as biological control agents. In particular, species of Aphelinoidea parasitize eggs of the beet leafhopper, Circulifer tenellus (Baker), the sole North American vector of beet curly top virus, an economically important pathogen affecting tomatoes, sugar beets, peppers, spinach, and beans. Two species, A. anatolica and A. turanica, were introduced from Iran into California against the beet leafhopper and became established there.

Description

The Aphelinoidea can by identified by the short venation and the presence of many discal setae in the wings. The funicle is absent and the long clava consists of 2 or 3 segments.

Aphelinoidea species reproduce by arrhenotoky: females are diploid and can produce female offspring only when mating occurs, while unmated females produce only males.

Taxonomy

Aphelinoidea is a large and diverse genus. A revision of the Holarctic species was published by Trjapitzin in 1995. Subsequent morphological and molecular studies have described additional species and corrected earlier misidentifications. for example, indigenous populations in California and other arid western states long identified as A. plutella Girault were found to represent at least two distinct new species, A. zarehi and A. roja. DNA sequence analysis and cross-mating tests have confirmed species boundaries within the genus.

Species

Species:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Aphelinoidea Girault, 1911". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  2. ↑ Walker, Gregory P.; Bayoun, Imad M.; Triapitsyn, Serguei V.; Honda, Jeffrey Y. (2005-10-21). "Taxonomy of Aphelinoidea (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) species attacking eggs of the beet leafhopper, Circulifer tenellus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), in California". Zootaxa. 1068 (1): 1–25. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1068.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  3. 1 2 Walker, Gregory P.; Bayoun, Imad M.; Triapitsyn, Serguei V.; Honda, Jeffrey Y. (2005-10-21). "Taxonomy of Aphelinoidea (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) species attacking eggs of the beet leafhopper, Circulifer tenellus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), in California". Zootaxa. 1068 (1): 1–25. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1068.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  4. ↑ Doutt, R. L.; Viggiani, G. (1968). "The classification of the Trichogrammatidae". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 35: 477–586.
  5. ↑ "Taxonomy of Aphelinoidea (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) species attacking eggs of the beet leafhopper, Circulifer tenellus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), in California".
  6. 1 2 Walker, Gregory P.; Bayoun, Imad M.; Triapitsyn, Serguei V.; Honda, Jeffrey Y. (2005-10-21). "Taxonomy of Aphelinoidea (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) species attacking eggs of the beet leafhopper, Circulifer tenellus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), in California". Zootaxa. 1068 (1): 1–25. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1068.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  7. ↑ "Universal Chalcidoidea Database". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
  8. ↑ Rakitov, Roman; Triapitsyn, Serguei V. (2013). "Egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae and Trichogrammatidae) of the gall-making leafhopper Scenergates viridis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Uzbekistan, with taxonomic notes on the Palaearctic species of Aphelinoidea". Zootaxa. 3683: 538–548. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3683.5.2. ISSN 1175-5326. PMID 25250467.