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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Platygastroidea » Scelionidae » Scelioninae » Scelio

Genus Scelio

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited

Parasitica - Superfamily Platygastroidea - Scelio - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)

Superfamily Platygastroidea

Family Scelionidae

Subfamily Scelioninae

Genus Scelio

Explanation of Names

Scelio Latreille 1805

Numbers

19 spp. in our area(1), ~240 spp. worldwide(2)

Species listed in Nomina Nearctica:

Scelio caloptenorum Riley, 1885

Scelio conformis Muesebeck, 1972

Scelio ernstii Riley, 1885

Scelio floridanus Ashmead, 1893

Scelio hyalinipennis Ashmead, 1887

Scelio incertus Muesebeck, 1972

Scelio insolitus Muesebeck, 1972

Scelio oedipodae Ashmead, 1893

Scelio opaca (Provancher, 1887)

Scelio ovivora (Riley, 1878)

Scelio pallidipes Ashmead, 1893

Scelio pumilus Muesebeck, 1972

Scelio rufulus Muesebeck, 1972

Scelio semirufus Muesebeck, 1972

Scelio singularis Muesebeck, 1972

Scelio solus Muesebeck, 1972

Scelio squamosus Muesebeck, 1972

Scelio striativentris Kieffer, 1908

Scelio venata Brues, 1906

Identification

Key to six spp. that parasitize Acrididae in(3)

All species treated in(4)

Range

worldwide (map)(2)

Food

grasshopper eggs (Acrididae, Pyrgomorphidae)(2)

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	Johnson N.F. (2004-2013) Platygastroidea

3.	Arthropod and nematode parasites, parasitoids, and predators of Acrididae in America north of Mexico N.E. Rees. 1973. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin No. 1460. 288 pp. .

4.	Nearctic species of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) that parasitize the eggs of grasshoppers C.F.W. Muesebeck. 1972. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 122. 33 pp. .

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 4 January, 2006 - 2:37pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 15 December, 2012 - 8:19pm

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