Ablerus


Ablerus is the only genus in the family Azotidae. The genus was created by the American entomologist Leland Ossian Howard in 1894 for the species named in that year by William Harris Ashmead as Centrodora clisiocampae. The genus Azotus was synonymized with Ablerus by Alexandre Arsène Girault in 1913 and Hayat synonymized Myocnemella with Ablerus in 1994, leaving Ablerus as the sole genus within the subfamily Azotinae. Azotinae was elevated in rank in 2013 to become the monotypic family Azotidae.
These tiny wasps are normally hyperparasitoids and are associated with the Aleyrodidae and Coccoidea, particularly Diaspididae, as well as the eggs of a variety of other insects. Overall there are over 90 species of Ablerus.

Species

These species belong to the genus Ablerus:Ablerus aegypticus Abd-Rabou, 2014 Ablerus albicaput Girault, 1924Ablerus aleuroides Ablerus aligarhensis Ablerus amarantus Girault, 1932Ablerus americanus Girault, 1916Ablerus aonidiellae Hayat, 1974Ablerus arboris Girault, 1932Ablerus argentiscapus Girault, 1932Ablerus atomon Ablerus baeusoides Girault, 1915Ablerus beenleighi Girault, 1926Ablerus bharathius Ablerus bicinctipes Girault, 1932Ablerus bidentatus Girault, 1913Ablerus bifasciatus Ablerus biguttatibiae Girault, 1924Ablerus byroni Kresslein, Avendaño & Herrera, 2024 Ablerus capensis Ablerus celsus Ablerus chionaspidis Ablerus chrysomphali Ablerus ciliatus De Santis, 1948Ablerus clisiocampae Ablerus connectens Silvestri, 1927Ablerus crassus Ablerus delhiensis Ablerus diana Girault, 1920Ablerus dozieri Ablerus elegantissimus Girault, 1913Ablerus elegantulus Ablerus emersoni Girault, 1917Ablerus fasciarius Wang, Huang & Polaszek, 2016Ablerus gargarae Hayat, 1998Ablerus gratus Girault, 1929Ablerus grotiusi Girault, 1913Ablerus hastatus Girault, 1932Ablerus howardii Girault, 1915Ablerus hyalinus Girault, 1913Ablerus impunctatipennis Girault, 1917Ablerus inquirenda Silvestri, 1927Ablerus lepidus Ablerus leucopidis Blanchard, 1942Ablerus longfellowi Girault, 1913Ablerus macchiae Ablerus macilentus Ablerus macrochaeta Silvestri, 1927Ablerus magistrettii Blanchard, 1942Ablerus miricilia Girault, 1929Ablerus molestus Blanchard, 1936Ablerus nelsoni Girault, 1921Ablerus novicornis Girault, 1931Ablerus nympha Girault, 1913Ablerus palauensis Doutt, 1951Ablerus pan Girault, 1913Ablerus perfuscipennis De Santis, 1954Ablerus perspeciosus Girault, 1916Ablerus peruvianus Girault, 1916Ablerus piceipes Girault, 1913Ablerus pinifoliae Ablerus pius Girault, 1929Ablerus plesius Ablerus plinii Girault, 1929Ablerus poincarei Girault, 1913Ablerus promacchiae Viggiani & Ren, 1993Ablerus pulcherrimus Ablerus pulchriceps Zehntner, 1899Ablerus pullicornis Girault, 1931Ablerus pumilus Annecke & Insley, 1970Ablerus punctatus Girault, 1921Ablerus rhea Girault, 1929Ablerus romae Girault, 1932Ablerus saintpierrei Girault, 1913Ablerus separaspidis Ablerus sidneyi Girault, 1932Ablerus similis Ablerus socratis Girault, 1931Ablerus socrus Girault, 1915Ablerus speciosus Girault, 1913Ablerus stylatus Ablerus totifuscipennis Girault, 1929Ablerus unnotipennis Girault, 1915Ablerus venustulus Girault, 1915
  • ''Ablerus williamsi''