The competition in Los Angeles, a candidate city for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, is due to take place at the VELO Sports Center in Carson from March 2 to 5.

Morelli, who won the gold medal in the women’s C4 individual pursuit event at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, is one of the leading cyclists selected on the squad.

She will also aim to retain the title she claimed in the women’s C4 3 kilometres individual pursuit race at the 2016 World Championships, held in Montichiari in Italy.

The American team for the event on home soil also includes London 2012 Paralympic gold medallist Joe Berenyi, who will bid to defend his C3 1,000 metres time trial and 3km individual pursuit titles.

Todd Key and Billy Lister are set to represent the US in the C1 classification, while Aaron Keith is due to be the sole American cyclist in the men’s C2 events.

Jason Kimball will join Berenyi in the C3, with Jason Macom and Justin Wildhalm braced to compete in the C4 category.

Chris Murphy has been named as the only C5 athlete.

In the women’s events, Jennifer Schuble and Samantha Bosco will compete in C5, while Jamie Whitmore has been chosen to participate in the C3 classification.

Chester Triplett and Steven Pedone have been selected as the men’s tandem team, with Shawn Cheshire and Robin Farina taking part for the women.

"We are very excited for this year’s World Championships," said Ian Lawless, high performance director at US Paralympics Cycling.

"It is a great opportunity for our athletes to showcase their talents and defend their number one world ranking on home soil in Los Angeles.

"We are coming off of a very strong summer in Rio where we saw 18 podium finishes - including four gold - across road and track cycling, which should make for a competitive World Championship."

Los Angeles was only awarded the hosting rights for the event earlier this month, sparking criticism from some of the riders.

Britain's 14-time Paralympic gold medallist Dame Sarah Storey claimed in November that there was a "lack of clarity" over the organisation of Para-cycling competitions.

She suggested the uncertainty over a potential Track World Championships in 2017 would give athletes who took breaks after Rio 2016 little time to prepare.

Seven-time Paralympic champion Jody Cundy, also from Britain, has claimed it is "a joke" that athletes were only given seven weeks to get ready for the competition.