Cheloninae
Subfamily of wasps
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Cheloninae is a cosmopolitan subfamily of braconid parasitoid wasps.
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| Cheloninae | |
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| Imago of an unidentified Ascogaster species | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Braconidae |
| Subfamily: | Cheloninae Foerster, 1863 |
| Tribes | |
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Adeliini | |
Description
Most Cheloninae are small and uniformly colored. They have a characteristic metasomal carapace formed from the fusion of the first three tergites.[citation needed]
Biology
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They are solitary koinobionts which parasitize Lepidoptera, especially Pyraloidea and Tortricoidea, but also other taxa whose larvae bore in stems, buds or fruits. Chelonines are egg-larval parasitoids, meaning they oviposit into a host egg, but the wasp larvae do not complete development until the caterpillar has hatched and matured. Chelonines carry polydnaviruses which aid in overcoming their hosts' immune system.[1]
Taxonomy and phylogeny
Genera
Genera placed in Cheloninae include:
Tribe Adeliini
Tribe Chelonini
- Ascogaster Wesmael, 1835 (paraphyletic?[citation needed])
- Austroascogaster Kittel and Austin, 2014
- Chelonus Panzer, 1806
- †Diodontogaster Brues, 1933
- †Eobracon Cockerell, 1920
- Leptodrepana Shaw, 1990
- Megascogaster Baker, 1926
Tribe Odontosphaeropygini
- Odontosphaeropyx Cameron, 1910
Tribe Phanerotomini
- Dentigaster Zettel, 1990
- Huseyinia Koçak and Kemal, 2008
- Leptochelonus Zettel, 1990
- Phanaustrotoma Kittel and Austin, 2014
- Phanerotoma Wesmael, 1838
- Phanerotomella Szépligeti, 1900
- Phanerotomoides Zettel, 1990
- Pseudophanerotoma Zettel, 1990
- Siniphanerotomella He et al., 1994
- Wushenia Zettel, 1990
