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Teleasinae

Teleasine wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

ClassificationIdentification keys

 

Ceratoteleas Kozlov, 1965

 

Echinoteleas Risbec, 1954

 

Gryonella Dodd, 1914

 

Odontoscelio Kieffer, 1905

 

Teleas Latreille, 1809

 

Trimorus Förster, 1856

 

Trisacantha Ashmead, 1887

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of eggs of Carabidae (Coleoptera).

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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