Signiphora Ashmead, 1880

Lahey, Zachary & Stansly, Philip, 2015, An updated list of parasitoid Hymenoptera reared from the Bemisia tabaci species complex (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), Florida Entomologist 98 (2), pp. 456-456 : 456-

Signiphora Ashmead (Chalcidoidea: Signiphoridae )

Signiphora is a relatively small genus that contains primary and hyperparasitoids, most of which are distributed throughout the Neotropics ( Woolley 1988). Signiphora aleyrodis Ashmead has been reared in small numbers from B. tabaci in numerous surveys throughout the Neotropics ( Schuster et al. 1998; Viscarret et al. 2000; de Oliveira et al. 2003) and represents the only nominal signiphorid associated with the species complex.This species is an obligate hyperparasitoid of Aphelinidae and Platygastridae ( Woolley 1988) . Additional reports of unidentified Signiphora species reared from the B. tabaci complex exist from Cuba ( Castineiras 1995), Columbia ( Bellotti et al. 2005), Martinique ( Ryckewaert & Alauzet 2002), and Argentina ( Viscarret et al. 2000) .

A key to the species and species groups of Signiphora is provided in Girault (1913) and Woolley (1988), respectively.