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Austroencyrtus
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- Encyrtidae
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- Austroencyrtus
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- Former and undescribed species
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Austroencyrtus is a genus of parasitic wasps.
==Taxonomic history and synonyms== In 1923, Alexandre Arsène Girault described the species A. annulicornis and circumscribed the new genus Austroencyrtus for it. In 1941, Girault created a new genus, Zamenhofella for another new species, Z. voltai. The genus Zamenhofella was classified as a junior synonym of Austroencyrtus in 1997 by Edward Dahms and Gordon Gordh. Liao Dingxi and circumscribed the genus Paracerchysius for their new species P. ceresii in 1984; Tachikawa synonymized this genus with Austroencyrtus the following year following the suggestion of .
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