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:
Aphelinoidea accepta Girault, 1938 Aphelinoidea anatolica Novicky, 1936 Aphelinoidea bischoffi (Novicky, 1946) Aphelinoidea deserticola Novicky, 1936 Aphelinoidea fasciativentris (Girault, 1915) Aphelinoidea gerlingi Triapitsyn, 2018 Aphelinoidea habros (De Santis, 1957) Aphelinoidea howardii Girault, 1912 Aphelinoidea huxleyi Girault, 1912 Aphelinoidea hyacinthus Girault, 1938 Aphelinoidea iucunda Girault, 1920 Aphelinoidea laticlavia Fursov, 2007 Aphelinoidea longiclavata Yousuf and Shafee, 1988 Aphelinoidea longicorpus (Girault, 1913) Aphelinoidea mariana Doutt, 1955 Aphelinoidea melanosoma Novicky, 1940 Aphelinoidea neomexicana (Girault, 1915) Aphelinoidea nigrioculae Girault, 1920 Aphelinoidea oblita De Santis, 1970 Aphelinoidea oceanica Timberlake, 1926 Aphelinoidea painei Girault, 1912 Aphelinoidea plutella Girault, 1912 Aphelinoidea redini (Girault, 1929) Aphelinoidea roja Triapitsyn, Walker and Bayoun, 2005 Aphelinoidea sariq Triapitsyn and Rakitov, 2013 Aphelinoidea semiflava De Santis, 1970 Aphelinoidea semifuscipennis Girault, 1911 Aphelinoidea shawanica Hu and Lin, 2005 Aphelinoidea stepposa Fursov, 2007 Aphelinoidea subexserta Nowicki, 1940 Aphelinoidea tintinnabulum Girault, 1915 Aphelinoidea totinigra Girault, 1930 Aphelinoidea turanica S. Trjapitzin, 1995, (= A. scythica Fursov, synonymised by Rakitov & Triapitsyn, 2013) Aphelinoidea waterhousei (Blood and Kryger, 1928) Aphelinoidea weismanni Girault, 1912 Aphelinoidea xenos Timberlake, 1924 Aphelinoidea xiphias (De Santis, 1957) Aphelinoidea yousufi Khan and Anis, 2016 Aphelinoidea zarehi Triapitsyn Walker and Bayoun, 2005
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