SCELIONIDAE Haliday, 1839
(scelionid wasps)

SCELIONIDAE (scelionid wasps) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

SCELIONIDAE (scelionid wasps) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
SCELIONINAE
a subfamily of hymenopterans
Subfamily 2 subtaxa 3 references
TELENOMINAE
a subfamily of hymenopterans
Subfamily 2 subtaxa 1 trophisms 3 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilySCELIONIDAE (scelionid wasps)
SuperfamilyPLATYGASTROIDEA (platygastroid parasitic wasps)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for SCELIONIDAE (scelionid wasps)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource

Generic Key

Masner, L. 1980 Key to genera of Scelionidae of the holarctic region, with descriptions of new genera and species (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada.

Non-british

Popovici, O.A., Masner, L., Notton, D.G. & Popovici, M. 2013 A review of Western Palaearctic Amblyscelio and Baryconus (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Platygastridae) Zootaxa Vol 3599 (4): 325-342.

SCELIONIDAE (scelionid wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Notton, D.G. 2006 Genus-group taxa of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae & Platygastridae) new to Britain Ent. Mon. Mag. Vol 142: 189-206.
Shaw, M.R., Stefanescu, C. & van Nouhuys, S. Parasitoids of European butterflies Shaw, M.R., Stefanescu, C. & van Nouhuys, S. Parasitoids of European butterflies, 27pp, Ecology of Butterflies in Europe

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to SCELIONIDAE (scelionid wasps):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 14 images of SCELIONIDAE (scelionid wasps)
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