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Scelio Latreille

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Platygastroidea; Family Platygastridae; Subfamily: Scelioninae)

Scelio Latreille 1805. Type species: Scelio rugosulus Latreille 1810.

 

Scelio pulchripennis species-group (Afrotropical species)
 

Scelio antorides Nixon, 1958

 

Scelio baoli Risbec, 1950

 

Scelio corion Nixon, 1958

 

Scelio habilis Nixon, 1958

 

Scelio leipo Yoder, 2009

 

Scelio marbis Nixon, 1958

 

Scelio masneri Yoder, 2009

 

Scelio nitens Brues, 1906

 

Scelio paranitens Yoder, 2009

 

Scelio parapulchripennis Yoder, 2009

 

Scelio poecilopterus Priesner, 1951

 

Scelio pulchripennis Brues, 1906

 

Scelio turbidus Yoder, 2009

 

Scelio variegatus Kozlov & Kononova, 1990

Scelio ernstii species-group (Afrotropical species)
 

Scelio chapmanni Nixon, 1958

 

Scelio mauriticanus Risbec, 1950

Scelio howardi species-group (Afrotropical species)
  Scelio cheops Nixon, 1958
 

Scelio exaratus (Kieffer, 1910)

 

Scelio howardi Crawford, 1910

Scelio memorabilis Yoder MS

Scelio sudanensis Ferrière, 1952

 

Scelio tristis Nixon, 1958

 

Scelio zolotarevskyi Ferrière, 1930

Scelio ipomea species-group (Afrotropical species)
  Scelio ipomeae Risbec,
Scelio madagascarensis species-group (Afrotropical species)
 

Scelio fuscipennis Kieffer,

Scelio walkeri species-group (Afrotropical species)

Scelio afer Kieffer, 1905  tiffs

 

Scelio africanus Risbec, 1950

 

Scelio clarus Fouts, 1934

  Scelio gaudens Nixon, 1958
 

Scelio nakhlensis Priesner, 1951

Scelio remaudierei Ferrière, 1952

Scelio species: some non-Afrotropical species

Scelio elongatus Kieffer, 1908

Scelio flavicoxis Kieffer, 1905

Scelio fuscicoxis Kieffer, 1905

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Egg parasitoids of Orthoptera.

References

Latreille, P.A. 1805. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Vol. 13. F. Dufart, Paris. 432 pp.

Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considérations générales sur l'ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides, et des Insectes. F. Schoell, Paris. 444 pp.

Yoder, M., Valerio, A., Polaszek, A., Masner, L., Johnson, N. 2009. Revision of Scelio pulchripennis-group species (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae). ZooKeys 20: 53-118. (doi: 10.3897/zookeys.20.205).

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort and Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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