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Sceliotrachelinae

Sceliotracheline wasps of the Afrotropical Region

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

ClassificationIdentification keys

Afrisolia Masner & Huggert, 1989
Allotropa Förster, 1856
Amitus Haldeman, 1850
Fidiobia Ashmead, 1894
Isolia Förster, 1878
Parabaeus Kieffer, 1910
Pulchrisolia Szabó, 1959
Sceliotrachelus Brues, 1908

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

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

References

Asadi-Farfar, M., Karimpour, Y., Lotfalizadeh, H. & Caleca, V. 2020. New records of Sceliotrachelinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) in Iran. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 6 (2), 125–133. http://zoobank.org/References/F5D5B569-0C77-4387-B221-416012F378F0

Ashmead, W.H. 1894. A new genus and species of Proctotrypidae and a new species of Brachysticha, bred by Prof. F.M.Webster. J. Cincinn. Soc. nat. Hist., 17: 170-172.

Ashmead, W.H. 1901. Three new parasitic Hymenoptera from South Africa. The Canadian
Entomologist
33: 138–139.

Buhl, P.N. 2001. Platygastroidea. In: Dathe, H.H.; Taeger, A.; Blank, S.M. (Eds.) "Verzeichnis der Hautflügler Deutschlands (Entomofauna Germanica 4)". Entomolische Nachrichten und Berichte (Dresden), Bieheft 7. 178 pp. pp.43-46.
Buhl PN. 2001
. Taxonomical notes on Platygastridae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea). Entomofauna, Zeitschrift für Entomologie 22: 17–38.
Buhl PN. 2009. Taxonomical studies on Oriental Platygastridae (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 12: 123–132.
Buhl PN. 2010. Platygastridae from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 6: 29–46.

Buhl PN. 2011. Species of Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae from rainforest canopies in Tanzania, with keys to the Afrotropical species of Amblyaspis, Inostemma, Leptacis, Platygaster and Synopeas (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 154(1): 75-126. https://doi.org/10.1163/22119434-900000309

Buhl PN. 2014. New species and new records of Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae from
Togo (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae). African Invertebrates 55: 67-117.

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

Chen H-Y, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Valerio AA,  Popovici OA, Musetti L, Klompen H, Polaszek A, Masner L, Austin AD, Johnson NF. 2021. An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification. Systematic Entomology 46(4): 1088-1113.

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Cresson, E.T. 1887. Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico, together with a catalogue of the described species, and bibliography. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. Supplementary Volume. 350 pp.
Dalla-Torre, C.G. de. 1898
. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen V: Chalcididae et Proctotrupidae. Guilelmi Engelmann, Lipsiae. [Leipzig.] 598 pp.
Lahey Z, van Noort S, Polaszek A, Masner L, Johnson N. 2019
. Revision of the Afrotropical genus Pulchrisolia Szabó (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Sceliotrachelinae). In: Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea II. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 73: 39-71. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.73.33876

Lotfalizadeh, H. 2018. Four subfamilies of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the northwest of Iran with new report of Sceliotrachelinae. North-Western Journal of Zoology 14: 237-242.

MacGown M, Nebeker T. 1978. Taxonomic review of Amitus (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea, Platygastridae) of the western hemisphere. Canadian Entomologist 110: 275-283. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/Ent110275-3

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.

Muesebeck, C.F.W. 1979. Pelecinoidea. Proctotrupoidea. Ceraphronoidea. In:Krombein K. V., Hurd P. D. Jr., Smith D. R. & Burks B. D. (eds.) "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico." pp. 1119-1195.

Risbec, J. 1955. Platygasterinae de Madagascar (Hym. Proctotrupidae). Bulletin de la Société
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80: 109–118.

Risbec, J. 1955. Les parasites de Pseudococcus njalensis Laing. et de Pseudococcus bingervillensis Magnin. L’Agronomie Tropicale 10: 231–237.

Szabó JB. 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. https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24365

van Noort S, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Austin AD, Masner L, Polaszek A, Johnson NF 2021. Review of Afrotropical sceliotracheline parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae). In: Lahey Z, Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea III. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 87: 115–222. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.87.73770

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

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