Taxonavigation

Familia: Aphelinidae
Subfamilia: Calesinae
Genus: Cales
Species (14): C. berryi – C. bicolor – C. breviclava – C. brevisensillum – C. curvigladius – C. longiseta – C. motterni – C. multisensillum – C. noacki – C. noyesi – C. orchamoplati – C. parvigladius – C. rosei – C. spenceri

Name

Cales Howard, 1907: 82

• Type species: Cales noacki Howard, 1907

Synonyms

• Diaspidophilus Brèthes, 1914
  • Type species: Diaspidophilus pallidus Brèthes, 1914 [=Cales noacki Howard, 1907]
• Paranthemus Girault, 1915
  • Type species: Paranthemus spenceri Girault, 1915

References

• Howard, L.O. 1907: New genera and species of Aphelinidae, with a revised table of genera. Technical series, Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, (12): 69–88. BHL Reference page. 

• Mottern, J.L.; Heraty, J.M. 2014: Revision of the Cales noacki species complex (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Aphelinidae). Systematic entomology 39(2): 354–379. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12060 Reference page. 

• Mottern, J.L.; Heraty, J.M.; Hartop, E. 2011: Cales (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): morphology of an enigmatic taxon with a review of species. Systematic entomology 36(2): 267–284. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00557.x Reference page. 

• Polaszek, A., Shih, Y-T. & Ward, S.E. 2015. A new species of Cales (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) parasitizing Bemisia pongamiae (Takahashi) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in Taiwan, with a key to world species of the Cales spenceri-group. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e6352. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e6352. Reference page.