Baeoentedon

Baeoentedon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Eulophidae
Subfamily: Entedoninae
Genus: Baeoentedon
Girault, 1915
Type species
Baeoentedon peculicornis
Girault, 1915
Species

Baeoentedon is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae, they are parasitoids of whitefly from the family Aleyrodidae which are found on trees of the genus Ficus. They have been recorded from Australia, China, India, Indonesia and Florida.[1][2] A fifth species, Baeoentodon farazi, was described from Karnataka, India, in 2017.[3]

  1. ^ Muhammad Z Ahmed; Yisell Velazquez Hernandez. "common name: Balios wasp (suggested common name) scientific name: Baeoentedon balios Wang, Huang & Polaszek (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)". Featured Creatures. University of Florida. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  2. ^ Zhu-Hong Wang; Jian Huang; Andrew Polaszek (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. PMID 24990066.
  3. ^ Mohd Majid Jamali; Shahid Bin Zeya (2017). "Description of two new species of subfamily Entedoninae (Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae), with some records from India" (PDF). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies. 5 (2): 1565–1569.