Tetracnemoidea sydneyensis

Tetracnemoidea sydneyensis (male), length about 1.2 mm

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chalcidoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Chalcidoidea

Familia: Encyrtidae
Subfamilia: Tetracneminae
Genus: Tetracnemoidea
Species: Tetracnemoidea sydneyensis

Name

Tetracnemoidea sydneyensis (Timberlake, 1929: 18)

• Original genus: Anarhopus Timberlake, 1929
• Original status: valid species
• Primary type: holotype
  • Fixation: designated
  • Description: [adult] female
  • Repository: USNM
• Type locality: 'Wahroonga', 'near Sydney, New South Wales'

Synonymy

• Arhopoideus semiargenteus Girault, 1929: 314

References

• Timberlake, P.H. 1929. Three new species of the hymenopterous family Encyrtidae from New South Wales. University of California publications in entomology 5(2): 5–18. Full article (PDF) on BUGZ Reference page. 
• Furness, G.O. 1977: Apparent failure of two parasites, Anarhopus sydneyensis (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) and Hungariella peregrina (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) to establish on field populations of Pseudococcus longispinus (Hemiptera: Coccidae) in South Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 16(1): 111–112. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1977.tb00069.x Reference page. 
• Girault, A.A. 1929: Notes on, and descriptions of, chalcid wasps in South Australian Museum. Concluding paper. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 309–346. BHL Reference page. 
• Noyes, J.S. 1988: Encyrtidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Fauna of New Zealand, 13. 192pp. ISBN 0-477-02517-X. PDF. Reference page.  [see p. 121, and figs. 348-351; redescription; 'new combination']
• Noyes, J.S. & Hayat, M. 1984. A review of the genera of Indo-Pacific Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 48(3): 131–395. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 231; as Anarhopus sydneyensis; synonymy]

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