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Sceliotrachelinae

Sceliotracheline wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

Classification

  Afrisolia
  Allotropa
  Amitus
  Fidiobia
Parabaeus
  Pulchrisolia
Sceliotrachelus

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Koinobiont parasitoids of gall midge (Cecidomyiidae) eggs developing only after the host has reached pupal or prepupal stage.

Reference

Brues, C.T. 1908. Hymenoptera. Fam. Scelionidae. Genera Insectorum 80: 1-59.

Masner. L. 1964. Remarks on Sceliotrachelus Brues and allied genera (Hymenoptera, Platygasteridae). Psyche, 71: 8-11.

Masner L. 1993. Superfamily Platygastroidea (pp. 558-565). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Masner L. & Huggert, L. 1989. World review and keys to genera of the subfamily Inostemmatinae with reassignment of the taxa to the Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 147: 1-214.

Szabó. 1959. Notes on the new tribus Amitini with the descriptions of a new genus and some new species of the Arctogaea (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Platygasteridae). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 51: 389-396.

Vlug, H. J. 1995. Catalogue of the Platygastridae (Platygastroidea) of the world (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Hymenopterorum Catalogus, 19: 1-168.

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