Amitus Haldeman, 1850

van Noort, Simon, Lahey, Zachary, Talamas, Elijah J., Austin, Andrew D., Masner, Lubomir, Polaszek, Andrew & Johnson, Norman F., 2021, Review of Afrotropical sceliotracheline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87, pp. 115-222 : 115

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.73770

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scientific name

Amitus Haldeman, 1850
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Amitus Haldeman, 1850: 109 (original description. Type: Amitus aleurodinis Haldeman, by monotypy); Cresson 1887: 250 (catalogue of species of U.S. and Canada); Ashmead 1893: 263, 264, 292 (description, keyed); Dalla Torre 1898: 481 (catalogue of species); Ashmead 1903: 97, 99 (keyed); Kieffer 1914: 361 (keyed); Kieffer 1916: 552 (description); Fouts 1924: 3, 8 (description, keyed); Kieffer 1926: 562, 697 (description, keyed, key to species); Jansson 1939: 175 (keyed); Maneval 1940: 117 (keyed); Mani 1941: 34 (catalogue of species of India); Debauche 1947: 282 (taxonomic status); Muesebeck and Walkley 1951: 709 (catalogue of species of U.S. and Canada); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 327 (citation of type species); De Santis 1967: 228 (catalogue of species of Argentina); Hellén 1968: 46 (description); Kozlov 1971: 57 (keyed); Kozlov 1978: 656 (key to species of the European USSR); MacGown and Nebeker 1978: 278 (review of species of Western Hemisphere); Muesebeck 1979: 1174 (catalogue of species of U.S. and Canada); Mani and Sharma 1982: 205 (description); Viggiani and Mazzone 1982: 63 (key to species of Italy); Huldén 1986: 21 (key to the species of Finland); Masner and Huggert 1989: 51 (description, species list); Vlug 1995: 15 (catalogued, catalogue of world species); Kozlov 1995: 126 (keyed); Austin and Field 1997: 55, 68 (structure of ovipositor system, discussion of phylogenetic relationships); Polaszek 1997: 77 (description); Buhl 1999: 18 (key to species of Fennoscandia and Denmark); Buhl and Notton 2009: 1655 (distribution); Ghahari and Buhl 2011: 331 (species of Iran); Anjana et al. 2016: 107 (description, key to species of India).

Zacrita Förster, 1878: 46 (original description. Type: Zacrita longicornis Förster, by monotypy and original designation. Synonymized by Ashmead (1893)); Ashmead 1893: 292 (junior synonym of Amitus Haldeman); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 409 (citation of type species).

Elaptus Forbes, 1885: 110 (original description. Type: Elaptus aleurodis Forbes, by monotypy. Error for Alaptus Westwood. Synonymized implicitly by Ashmead (1893)); Ashmead 1893: 292 (junior synonym of Amitus Haldeman); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 349 (citation of type species).

Passalida Brèthes, 1914: 2 (original description. Type: Passalida spinifera Brèthes, by monotypy and original designation. Synonymized by De Santis (1941)); Muesebeck and Walkley 1956: 382 (citation of type species).

Masnerium Polaszek, 2009: 120 (original description. Type: Masnerium wellsae Polaszek, by monotypy and original designation). Synonymized by Lahey et al. (2021).

Diagnosis.

Short, stocky, dorsoventrally flattened species, with long wings without distinct veins; head in lateral view somewhat opisthognathous; antennal formula usually 10-10, rarely 8-8 (e.g. Amitus wellsae (Polaszek)); female antenna with abrupt, subcompact, spindle-shaped to ovoid clava resulting from the fusion of A8-A10; sulci present between clavomeres except in Australian members of the genus (e.g. Amitus wellsae (Polaszek)); male antenna with specialized paddle-shaped area on A4; netrion well developed; propodeum partly covered with foamy structures; metasoma short, subsessile, almost as wide as long; T1 strongly trapezoidal-transverse; T2 usually with fan of striae anterolaterally.

Species richness.

Amitus hesperidum Silvestri, 1927 (China, but introduced to most tropical areas) (Fig. 11 View Figure 11 ).

Amitus species 1 (Kenya).

Amitus species 2 (Madagascar).

Amitus species 3 (South Africa) (Fig. 12 View Figure 12 ).

Distribution.

Afrotropical: Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa (new records). Cosmopolitan, excluding Antarctica and New Zealand ( Masner and Huggert 1989; Vlug 1995).

Biology.

Solitary and occasionally gregarious endoparasitoids of whiteflies ( Hemiptera , Sternorrhyncha , Aleyrodidae ) ( Masner and Huggert 1989; Vlug 1995).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Platygastridae

Loc

Amitus Haldeman, 1850

van Noort, Simon, Lahey, Zachary, Talamas, Elijah J., Austin, Andrew D., Masner, Lubomir, Polaszek, Andrew & Johnson, Norman F. 2021
2021
Loc

Masnerium

Polaszek 2009
2009
Loc

Masnerium wellsae

Polaszek 2009
2009
Loc

Passalida spinifera

Brethes 1914
1914
Loc

Elaptus aleurodis

Forbes 1885
1885
Loc

Zacrita

Forster 1878
1878
Loc

Zacrita longicornis

Foerster 1878
1878
Loc

Amitus

Haldeman 1850
1850
Loc

Amitus aleurodinis

Haldeman 1850
1850
Loc

Amitus

Haldeman 1850
1850
Loc

Amitus

Haldeman 1850
1850