Andrew Polaszek

Andrew Polaszek, British entomologist.

• Department of Entomology, the Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK; Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London SW7 2AZ, UK.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 12 taxon names authored by Andrew Polaszek

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1996

• Booth, R.G. & Polaszek, A., 1996. The identities of ladybird beetle predators used for whitefly control, with notes on some whitefly parasitoids, in Europe. In Proceedings of the Brighton Crop Protection Conference-Pests & Diseases, 1996, pp. 69-74. Reference page. 

1997

• Evans, G.A. & Polaszek, A. 1997: Additions to the Encarsia parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) of the Bemisia tabaci-complex (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Bulletin of Entomological Research, 87: 563–571. full article (pdf). Reference page. 
• LaSalle, J., Polaszek, A., Noyes, J.S. & Zolnerowich, G. 1997. A new whitefly parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae: Eunotinae), with comments on its placement, and implications for classification of Chalcidoidea with particular reference to the Eriaporinae (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Systematic Entomology 22(2): 131–150. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.1997.d01-38.x Reference page. 

1998

• Evans, G.A. & Polaszek, A. 1998: The Encarsia cubensis species-group (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 100: 222–233. full article (pdf). Reference page. 

2000

• Quicke, D.L.J. & Polaszek, A. 2000. A new genus, and first host records, for the Adeshini: parasitoids of hispine beetles (Braconidae: Braconinae; coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 9: 104–107. Reference page. 

2009

• Yoder, M.J., Valerio, A.A., Polaszek, A., Masner, L. & Johnson, N.F. 2009: Revision of Scelio pulchripennis-group species (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae). In: Johnson, N.F. (ed.) Advances in the systematics of Hymenoptera. Festschrift in honour of Lubomír Masner. ZooKeys 20: 53–118. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.20.205 . Reference page. 

2010

• Rasekh, B. & Polaszek, A. 2010. New records of Encarsia (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) parasitising Aleyrodidae (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) in Iran, with the description of a new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 19(2): 223–227. BHL Reference page. 

2011

• Polaszek, A. & Gill, R. 2011. A new species of whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and its parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from desert lavender in California. Zootaxa 2750: 51–59. PreviewReference page. 

2013

• Heraty, J.M., Burks, R.A., Cruaud, A., Gibson, G.A.P., Liljeblad, J., Munro, J., Rasplus, J.-Y., Delvare, G., Janšta, P., Gumovsky, A., Huber, J., Woolley, J.B., Krogmann, L., Heydon, S., Polaszek, A., Schmidt, S., Darling, D.C., Gates, M.W., Mottern, J., Murray, E., Dal Molin, A., Triapitsyn, S., Baur, H., Pinto, J.D., Noort, S.v., George, J. & Yoder, M. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Cladistics 29(5): 466–542. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12006 Reference page. 
• Polaszek, A., Ayshford, T., Yahya, B.E. & Fusu, L. 2013 (Online) 2014 (Print): Wallaceaphytis: an unusual new genus of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from Borneo. Journal of Natural History 48(19-20): 1111–1123. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.852264 Reference page. 
• Shih, Y.T., Ko, C.C., Pan, K.T., Lin, S.C., Polaszek, A. 2013. Hydrophylita (Lutzimicron) emporos Shih & Polaszek (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) from Taiwan, parasitising eggs, and phoretic on adults, of the damselfly Psolodesmus mandarinus mandarinus (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae). PLoS ONE 8(7): e69331. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069331 Reference page. 

2014

• Polaszek, A. 2014: A new species of Encarsia (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) reared from Aleurochiton aceris (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in England. Entomologist's monthly magazine 150(1799-1801): 97–101. Reference page. 
• Bebber DP, Polaszek, A., Wood JRI, Barker C, Scotland RW 2014. Taxonomic capacity and author inflation. New Phytologist, 202 (3) :741-742. DOI: 10.1111/nph.12745
• Wang, Z.-H., Huang, J. & Polaszek, A. 2014. Three new species of Coccobius Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae) and redescription of C. abdominis Huang and C. furviflagellatus Huang from China. Zootaxa 3774(5): 460–472. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.5.4 Reference page. 
• Yoder, M.J., Valerio, A.A., Polaszek, A., van Noort, S., Masner, L. & Johnson, N.F. 2014. Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1–188. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.380.5755 Reference page. 
• Wang, Z.-H., Huang, J. & Polaszek, A. 2014. Two new species of Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae) and first description of the male E. plana Viggiani & Ren from China. Zootaxa 3889(4): 574–588. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3889.4.5 Reference page. 
• Wang, Z.-H., Huang, J. & Polaszek, A. 2014. Three new species of Baeoentedon Girault (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from China, with the first record of whitefly host association (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae). Zootaxa 3826(3): 591–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3826.3.9 Reference page. 

2015

• Fernandez-Triana, J., Noyes, J.S., Polaszek, A. & Yu, D.S.K. 2015. Clarification of the author and year of publication of Cotesia chilonis, a species used widely for biological control of Chilo stem borers. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 45: 113–123. DOI: 10.3897/JHR.45.5274. Reference page. 
• Ko, C.C., Shih, Y.T., Schmidt, S. & Polaszek, A. 2015. A new species of Encarsia (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae) developing on ficus whitefly Singhiella simplex (Hemiptera, Aleyrodidae) in China and Taiwan. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 46: 85–90. DOI: 10.3897/JHR.46.5155. Reference page. 
• Polaszek, A., Shih, Y-T. & Ward, S.E. 2015. A new species of Cales (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) parasitizing Bemisia pongamiae (Takahashi) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in Taiwan, with a key to world species of the Cales spenceri-group. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e6352. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e6352. Reference page. 

2016

• Ward, S.E., Shih, Y.T., Ko, C-C. & Polaszek, A. 2016. Two new species of Eretmocerus Haldeman (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) parasitizing Aleurolobus rhododendri Takahashi and Dialeuropora decempunctata (Quaintance & Baker) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from Taiwan. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7713. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7713. Reference page. 
• Ward, S.E., Valente, C., Gonçalves, C. & Polaszek, A. 2016. Rediscovery and redescription of Centrodora damoni (Girault) (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from Australia, an egg parasitoid of Gonipterus spp (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), after nearly a century. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7766. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7766. Reference page. 

2017

• Fusu, L. & Polaszek, A. 2017. Description, DNA barcoding and phylogenetic placement of a remarkable new species of Eopelma (Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae) from Borneo. Zootaxa 4263(3): 557–566. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.7. Reference page. 

2019

• Schmidt, S., Hamid, H., Ubaidillah, R., Ward, S. & Polaszek, A. 2019. A review of the Indonesian species of the family Signiphoridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), with description of three new species. ZooKeys, 897: 29–47. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.897.38148 Reference page. 
• Polaszek, A., Almandhari, T., Fusu, F., Al-Khatri, S.A.H., Naabi, S.Al, Shidi, R.H.Al, Russell, S.J., Hardy, I.C.W. 2019. Goniozus omanensis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) an important parasitoid of the lesser date moth Batrachedra amydraula Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Batrachedridae) in Oman. PLoS ONE. 14(12): e0223761. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223761 Reference page. 

2024

• Cruaud, A., Rasplus, J-Y., Zhang, J-X., Burks, R.A., Delvare, G., Fusu, L., Gumovsky, A., Huber, J.T., Janšta, P., Mitroiu, M-D., Noyes, J.S., Noort, S. van, Baker, A., Böhmová, J., Baur, H., Blaimer, B.B., Brady, S.G., Bubeníková, K., Chartois, M., Copeland, R.S., Papilloud, N.D-S, Molin, A.D., Dominguez, C., Gebiola, M., Guerrieri, E., Kresslein, R.L., Krogmann, L., Lemmon, E.M., Murray, E.A., Nidelet, S., Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., Perry, R.K., Peters, R.S., Polaszek, A., Sauné, L., Torréns, J., Triapitsyn, S.V., Tselikh, E.V., Yoder, M., Lemmon, A.R., Woolley J.B. & Heraty, J.M. 2024. The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps. Cladistics, 40(1): 34–63. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12561. . Reference page. 
• Liu, Z. & Polaszek, A. 2024. Afrotropical Centistidea Rohwer, 1914 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with description of four new species. ZooKeys 1216: 83–100. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1216.133127 Reference page.