Scelionidae

Scelionidae

Telenomus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Superfamily:	Platygastroidea
Family:	Scelionidae
Subfamilies
Scelioninae Teleasinae Telenominae

The hymenopteran family Scelionidae 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, with (typically) elbowed antennae that have a 9- or 10-segmented flagellum. Nowadays, it is considered to be a subfamily of the Platygastridae.^[1]

They are generally idiobionts, attacking the eggs of many different types of insects or spiders, and many are important in biological control. Several genera are wingless, and a few attack aquatic insect eggs underwater.

References

↑ Aguiar et al. 2013

External links

Cedar Creek Pinned specimen images.
Paper on the Genus Thoron.

Extant Hymenopteran families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Endopterygota

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Xyeloidea	Xyelidae

Pamphilioidea	Megalodontesidae Pamphiliidae (web-spinning sawflies)

Tenthredinoidea	Argidae (argid sawflies) Blasticotomidae (fern sawflies) Cimbicidae (cimbicid sawflies) Diprionidae (conifer sawflies) Pergidae (pergid sawflies) Tenthredinidae (common sawflies)

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Cephoidea	Cephidae (stem sawflies)

Siricoidea	Anaxyelidae (cedar wood wasps) Siricidae (horntails)

Xiphydrioidea	Xiphydriidae (wood wasps)

Orussoidea	Orussidae (parasitic wood wasps)

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Stephanoidea

Stephanidae

Ichneumonoidea

Proctotrupomorpha

Platygastroidea	Platygastridae Scelionidae

Cynipoidea	Austrocynipidae Cynipidae (gall wasps) Figitidae Ibaliidae Liopteridae

Proctotrupoidea (s.str.)	Proctorenyxidae Roproniidae Heloridae Pelecinidae Peradeniidae Proctotrupidae Vanhorniidae

Diaprioidea	Austroniidae Diapriidae Maamingidae Monomachidae

Mymarommatoidea	Mymarommatidae

Chalcidoidea (chalcid wasps)	Agaonidae (fig wasps) Aphelinidae Chalcididae Encyrtidae Eucharitidae Eulophidae Eupelmidae Eurytomidae Leucospidae Mymaridae (fairyflies) Ormyridae Perilampidae Pteromalidae Rotoitidae Signiphoridae Tanaostigmatidae Tetracampidae Torymidae Trichogrammatidae

Ceraphronoidea

Megalyroidea

Megalyridae

Trigonaloidea

Trigonalidae

Evanioidea

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Apoidea

Anthophila (bees)	Andrenidae (mason bees) Apidae (honey bees, bumblebees, cuckoo bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, stingless bees) Colletidae (plasterer bees) Halictidae (sweat bees) Megachilidae (mason bees, leafcutter bees) Melittidae Stenotritidae

Spheciformes (sphecoid wasps)	Ampulicidae (cockroach wasps) Crabronidae (sand wasps, bee wolves) Heterogynaidae Sphecidae (thread-waisted wasps)

Chrysidoidea

Vespoidea

Italic are paraphyletic groups

Based on Malm and Nyman (2015)

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