Oxyscelio Kieffer

Distribution

Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental, Palaearctic regions.

Diversity

World total of 170 described species (Burks et al. 2013a, 2013b, Burks et al. 2016; Johnson et al. 2013).

Biology

A single host record, an exposed egg laid by an unknown orthopteran species onto plant tissue, is known for Oxyscelio perpensus Kononova (Kononova & Fursov, 2007).

References

Austin AD, Field SA. 1997. The ovipositor system of scelionid and platygastrid wasps (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea): comparative morphology and phylogenetic implications. Invertebrate
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Burks RA, Masner L, Johnson NF, Austin A. 2013. Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l.), Part I: Indo-Malayan and Palearctic fauna. ZooKeys 292: 1–263.29 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.292.3867
Burks RA, Masner L, Johnson NF, Austin A. 2013. Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l.), Part II: the Australian and south-west Pacific fauna. ZooKeys 331: 1–266.30 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.331.5152
Dodd AP. 1931. The genus Oxyscelio Kieffer, its synonymy and species, with a description of one new genus (Hymenoptera: Proctotrypoidea). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 42: 71–81.

Burks RA, Masner L, Johnson NF, Austin AD. 2016. Systematics of the parasitic wasp genus Oxyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.), part III: African fauna. ZooKeys 565: 29–71.  doi:10.3897/zookeys.565.7185

Johnson NF, Burks RA, Austin A, Xu Z. 2013. Chinese species of egg-parasitoids of the genera Oxyscelio Kieffer, Heptascelio Kieffer and Platyscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l., Scelioninae). Biodiversity Data Journal 1: e987.35 doi: 10.3897/bdj.1.e987
Kieffer JJ. 1907. Beschreibung neuer Prototrypiden aus Java. (Hym.) Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 7: 310–313.
Kononova SV, Fursov VN. 2007. [A review of the genera Calotelea, Calliscelio, and Oxyscelio (Scelioninae, Scelionidae, Proctotrupoidea) from the Palaearctic fauna.] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 86: 52–65.
Masner L. 1976. Revisionary notes and keys to world genera of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 97: 1–87. doi:
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Mikó I, Vilhelmsen L, Johnson NF, Masner L, Pénzes Z. 2007. Skeletomusculature of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea): head and mesosoma. Zootaxa 1571: 1–78.
Szabó J. 1956. Neue Gattungen und Arten der Scelioniden aus Ost-Afrika und Mittel-Amerika. Opuscula Zoologica (Budapest) 1: 47–52.

Credits

Photographs by Candice Owen © (Iziko South African Museum).

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