Andrew Polaszek
British entomologist and researcher

Andrew Polaszek

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British entomologist and researcher
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30 December 1959(London, England, UK)
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Imperial College London
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Andrew Polaszek, British entomologist.

  • Department of Entomology, the Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK; Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London SW7 2AZ, UK.

Taxon names authored

  • 11taxon names authored by Andrew Polaszek

Publications

1996

  • Booth, R.G. & Polaszek, A., 1996. The identities of ladybird beetle predators used for whitefly control, with notes on some whitefly parasitoids, in Europe. In Proceedings of the Brighton Crop Protection Conference-Pests & Diseases, 1996, pp. 69-74. Reference page. 

1997

  • Evans, G.A. & Polaszek, A. 1997: Additions to the Encarsia parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) of the Bemisia tabaci-complex (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Bulletin of Entomological Research, 87: 563–571. full article (pdf). Reference page. 

1998

  • Evans, G.A. & Polaszek, A. 1998: The Encarsia cubensis species-group (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 100: 222–233. full article (pdf). Reference page. 

2011

  • Polaszek, A. & Gill, R. 2011. A new species of whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and its parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from desert lavender in California. Zootaxa 2750: 51–59. PreviewReference page. 

2013

  • Polaszek, A. et al. 2013 (Online) 2014 (Print): Wallaceaphytis: an unusual new genus of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from Borneo. Journal of natural history 48(19-20): 1111–1123. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.852264 Reference page. 

2014

  • Polaszek, A. 2014: A new species of Encarsia (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) reared from Aleurochiton aceris (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in England. Entomologist's monthly magazine 150(1799-1801): 97–101. Reference page. 
  • Bebber DP, Polaszek, A., Wood JRI, Barker C, Scotland RW 2014. Taxonomic capacity and author inflation. New Phytologist, 202 (3) :741-742. DOI: 10.1111/nph.12745
  • Wang, Z.-H.; Huang, J.; Polaszek, A. 2014: Three new species of Coccobius Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae) and redescription of C. abdominis Huang and C. furviflagellatus Huang from China. Zootaxa 3774(5): 460–472. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.5.4 Reference page. 
  • Yoder, M.J. et al. 2014: Monograph of the Afrotropical species of Scelio Latreille (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae), egg parasitoids of acridid grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acrididae). ZooKeys 380: 1-188. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.380.5755 Reference page. 
  • Wang, Z.-h.; Huang, J.; Polaszek, A. 2014: Two new species of Encarsia Förster (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae) and first description of the male E. plana Viggiani & Ren from China. Zootaxa 3889(4): 574–588. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3889.4.5 Reference page. 
  • Wang, Z.-h.; Huang, J.; Polaszek, A. 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 Reference page. 

2015

  • Fernandez-Triana, J., Noyes, J.S., Polaszek, A. & Yu, D.S.K. 2015. Clarification of the author and year of publication of Cotesia chilonis, a species used widely for biological control of Chilo stem borers. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 45: 113–123. DOI: 10.3897/JHR.45.5274. Reference page. 
  • Ko, C.C., Shih, Y.T., Schmidt, S. & Polaszek, A. 2015. A new species of Encarsia (Hymenoptera, Aphelinidae) developing on ficus whitefly Singhiella simplex (Hemiptera, Aleyrodidae) in China and Taiwan. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 46: 85–90. DOI: 10.3897/JHR.46.5155. 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. 

2016

  • Ward, S.E., Shih, Y.T., Ko, C-C. & Polaszek, A. 2016. Two new species of Eretmocerus Haldeman (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) parasitizing Aleurolobus rhododendri Takahashi and Dialeuropora decempunctata (Quaintance & Baker) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) from Taiwan. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7713. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7713. Reference page. 
  • Ward, S.E., Valente, C., Gonçalves, C. & Polaszek, A. 2016. Rediscovery and redescription of Centrodora damoni (Girault) (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from Australia, an egg parasitoid of Gonipterus spp (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), after nearly a century. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7766. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e7766. Reference page. 

2017

2019

  • Schmidt, S., Hamid, H., Ubaidillah, R., Ward, S. & Polaszek, A. 2019. A review of the Indonesian species of the family Signiphoridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), with description of three new species. ZooKeys, 897: 29–47. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.897.38148 Open access Reference page. 
  • Polaszek, A., Almandhari, T., Fusu, F., Al-Khatri, S.A.H., Naabi, S.Al, Shidi, R.H.Al, Russell, S.J., Hardy, I.C.W. 2019. Goniozus omanensis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) an important parasitoid of the lesser date moth Batrachedra amydraula Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Batrachedridae) in Oman. PLoS ONE. 14(12): e0223761. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223761 Open access Reference page. 
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