Scelioninae

Scelioninae is a subfamily of wasps in the family Platygastridae. It is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species in some 160 genera) of exclusively parasitoid wasps, mostly small (0.5–10 mm), often black, often highly sculptured, usually with geniculate (elbowed) antennae that have a 9- or 10-segmented flagellum. It was formerly considered to be a family Scelionidae but has been reclassified as a subfamily of the Platygastridae.[1]

Scelioninae
Telenomus sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Scelionidae
Subfamily: Scelioninae
Haliday, 1839

The subfamilies Scelioninae, Teleasinae, and Telenominae were formerly in the family Scelionidae, but Scelionidae was combined with the family Platygastridae because of genetic similarities. The name Platygastridae was retained for the resulting family because of seniority.[2] This change is not accepted by all authorities: Telenominae is a subfamily of Scelionidae according to the Australian Faunal Directory.[3][4]

Biology

They are generally idiobionts, attacking the eggs of many different types of insects, spiders, butterflies (the hackberry emperor, for example)[5] and many are important in biological control. Several genera are wingless, and a few attack aquatic insect eggs underwater.

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References
  1. Aguiar et al. 2013
  2. Sharkey, M.J. (2007). "Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera". Zootaxa. 309: 13–48.
  3. "Australian Faunal Directory: Telenominae". biodiversity.org.au. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  4. Taekul, C. (2014). "Molecular phylogeny of telenomine egg parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae s.l.: Telenominae): evolution of host shifts and implications for classification". Systematic Entomology. 39: 24–35. doi:10.1111/syen.12032. hdl:2440/95969. S2CID 38377410.
  5. Friedlander, Timothy P. (1984). "General Notes: INSECT PARASITES AND PREDATORS OF HACKBERRY BUTTERFLIES (NYMPHALIDAE: ASTEROCAMPA)". Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 38: 60–61.
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