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Scelioninae

Scelionine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

ClassificationIdentification keys

 

Abuko Masner & Huggert, 1979

  Acolomorpha Dodd, 1914
 

Aneuroscelio Kieffer, 1913 

 

Angolobaeus Kozlov, 1970

 

Anteris Förster, 1856 

 

Anteromorpha Dodd, 1913

 

Anthonyon Huggert & Masner, 1983 

 

Antroscelio Kieffer, 1913

  Aradaphagus Ashmead 1893
 

Apteroscelio Kieffer, 1913

  Baeus Haliday, 1833
 

Baryconus Förster, 1856

 

Breviscelio Sundholm, 1970 

 

Calliscelio Ashmead, 1893

 

Calotelea Westwood, 1837 

 

Chromoteleia Ashmead, 1893 

  Cremastobaeus Ashmead, 1893
 

Dichoteleas Kieffer, 1907

 

Diroscelio Kieffer, 1913 

 

Doddiella Kieffer, 1913

  Duta Nixon, 1933
  Dyscritobaeus Perkins, 1910
 

Echthrodesis Masner, 1968 

 

Embidobia Ashmead, 1896

 

Encyrtoscelio Dodd, 1914

 

Endecascelio Masner & Dessart, 1972

  Eremioscelio Priesner, 1951
 

Freniger Szabó, 1956

 

Fuscicornia Risbec, 1950

 

Gryon Holiday, 1833

 

Hadronotoides Dodd, 1913

Heptascelio Kieffer, 1916

 

Hirtiteleas Risbec, 1956

 

Idris Förster, 1856

 

Ladora Masner & Huggert, 1979

Lepidoscelio Kieffer, 1905

 

Leptoteleia Kieffer, 1908

Macroteleia Westwood, 1935

 

Mantibaria Kirby,  1900

 

Marginanteris Risbec,1957

 

Maruzza Mineo, 1982

 

Microteleia Kieffer, 1910

 

Microthoron Masner, 1972

Nixonia Masner, 1958

  Nyleta Dodd, 1926
 

Odontacolus Kieffer, 1910

 

Oethecoctonus Ashmead, 1893

 

Opisthacantha Ashmead, 1893

Oreiscelio Kieffer, 1910

  Palpoteleia Kieffer, 1926
 

Parabrachyscelio Risbec, 1957

 

Paraduta Szabó, 1974

 

Paraneurobaeus Risbec, 1956

 

Paridris Kieffer, 1908

 

Platyscelidris Szabó, 1959

  Platyscelio Kieffer, 1905
 

Probaryconus Kieffer, 1908

 

Psilanteris Kieffer, 1916

 

Psiloteleia Keiffer, 1910

 

Roena Cameron, 1905

Scelio Latreille, 1805

 

Shreemana Nixon, 1933

 

Sparasion Latreille, 1802

 

Stenotelea Huggert & Masner, 1983

 

Styloteleia Kieffer, 1916

 

Trichoteleia Kieffer, 1910

Distribution

Worldwide

Biology

Idiobiont endoparasitoids of insect (Orthoptera, Grylloptera, Hemiptera, Embioptera, Mantodea) and spider (Aranaea) eggs.

References

Johnson, N. F. 1992. Catalog of world Proctotrupoidea excluding Platygastridae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 1-825.

Masner, L. 1976. Revisionary notes and keys to world genera of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 97: 1-87.

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.

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