Ablerus atomon ( Walker, 1847 )

Wang, Zhu Hong, Huang, Jian & Polaszek, Andrew, 2016, The species of genus Ablerus Howard (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Azotidae) from China, with description of a new species, Florida Entomologist 99 (3), pp. 395-405 : 397-398

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1653/024.099.0310
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11549694
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scientific name	Ablerus atomon ( Walker, 1847 )
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1. Ablerus atomon ( Walker, 1847) View in CoL

( Figs. 1–4 View Figs )

Encyrtus atomon Walker, 1847: 229 .

Type status unknown. Austria .

Azotus marchali Howard, 1898: 139 .

Holotype ♂. France::aris ( USNM).

Azotus pinifoliae Mercet, 1912: 141 View in CoL . Syntypes 1 ♀, 1 ♂. Spain: Madrid .

Synonymy by Ferrière, 1965: 105.

Azotus mokrzeckii Nowicky, 1926: 108 .

Holotype ♀. Poland: Bobrowa .

Synonymy by Ferrière, 1965: 105.

Azotus atomon ( Walker, 1847) View in CoL : Ferrière, 1965: 105.

Ablerus atomon ( Walker, 1847) View in CoL : Hayat, 1994: 84.

MATERIAL

China. Xinjiang: 1 ♀, Yining, 23-VII-2010, Hong-Ying Hu, by sweeping ( FAFU); 1 ♀, Hutubi, 23-VII-2005, Hong-Ying Hu, by sweeping (FAFU); 1 ♀, Zeketai, 2-VIII-2006, Hong-Ying Hu, by sweeping ( FAFU) .

HOSTS

The following hosts are recorded: Diaspididae : Diaspidiotus gigas (Thiem & Gerneck) , ( Li et al. 2011); Chionaspis stantophris , Ch. pinifoliae (Fitch) , Diaspidiotus caucasicus (Borchsenius) , D. hungaricus Kosztarab , D. ostreaeformis (Curtis) , D. perniciosus (Comstock) , D. prunorum (Laing) , D. pyri (Lichtenstein) , D. uvae (Comstock) , Epidiaspis leperii (Signoret) , Lepidosaphes conchiformis Gmelin , L. ulmi (L.), Leucaspis loewi Colvée , L. pini (Hartig) , L. pusilla Löw , L. signoreti Targioni-Tozzetti , Nuculaspis abietis (Schrank) , Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti) , Quadraspidiotus zonatus (Frauenfeld) . Aphelinidae : Encarsia leucaspidis (Mercet) , ( Walker 1847; Nikol’skaja & Yasnosh 1966; Annecke & Insley 1970; Hayat 1979; Darling & Johnson 1984; Hayat 1994; Yasnosh 1995; Noyes 2015)

DISTRIBUTION

China (Xijiang); Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Turkey, Russia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, America, Argentina, Egypt, Australia.

REMARKS

Ablerus atomon was first recorded from China by Li et al. (2011), reared from Diaspidiotus gigas (Thiem & Gerneck) in Xinjiang. However, A. atomon was considered as a hyperparasitoid of scale insects ( Nikol’skaja & Yasnosh 1966), and the above scale insect hosts are probably the secondary hosts for A. atomon .