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Family Scelionidae

 
 
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Key to genera of Scelionidae of the Holarctic region, with descriptions of new genera and species (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoid
By Masner L
Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 112 (S113): 1–54, 1980

Parasitic wasps of the genus Trimorus in North America
By RM Fouts
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 98(3225): 91-148, 1948
Online here.

Includes a key to the subfamily as well.

A new Scelionid egg parasite of the black widow spider
By H. L. Dozier
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 27-28, 1931
First description of Baeus latrodecti.

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The black widow spider and its parasites
By W. D. Pierce
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 101-104, 1938
This article provides first description of Baeus californicus, identified by Krombein, Vol 1, 1160-1161(1) as a synonym of Baeus latrodecti(2).

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The parasitic wasps of the genus Macroteleia Westwood of the New World (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea, Scelionidae)
By Muesebeck, C. F. W.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1565: 1-57, 1977

Systematics of Old World Odontacolus Kieffer s.l. (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae s.l.): parasitoids of spider eggs
By Valerio AA, Austin AD, Masner L, Johnson NF
ZooKeys 314:1-151, 2013
doi: 10.3897/zookeys.314.3475
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AFAIK, there is no equivalent paper on Nearctic species

The Nearctic Species of Idris Foerster. Part 1: the Melleus-group (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)
By Masner L, Denis J
The Canadian Entomologist 128: 85–114, 1996

The Nearctic Species of Duta Nixon (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), Egg Parasitoids of Ground Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)
By Masner L
The Canadian Entomologist Vol. 123, Issue 4 pp. 777-793, 1991
available here. DOI

 
 
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