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Cheloninae
The Cheloninae are a subfamily of braconid parasitic wasps. They are solitary koinobionts which parasitize the caterpillars of certain Lepidoptera. Especially Pyraloidea and Tortricoidea, but also other taxa whose larvae bore in stems, buds or fruits, are used as hosts. The wasps oviposit into the lepidopteran eggs, but their larvae do not develop until the caterpillar has hatched.
Most Cheloninae are small and uniformly colored. Their metasomal carapace is characteristically formed from the first three tergites.
Genera placed in the Cheloninae include:
- Ascogaster Wesmael, 1835 ( paraphyletic?)
- Austroascogaster Kittel and Austin, 2014
- Chelonus Panzer, 1806
- Dentigaster Zettel, 1990
- Diodontogaster Brues, 1933
- Eobracon Cockerell, 1920
- Huseyinia Koçak and Kemal, 2008
- Leptochelonus Zettel, 1990
- Leptodrepana Shaw, 1990
- Megascogaster Baker, 1926
- Odontosphaeropyx Cameron, 1910
- 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
Previously belonging to the Adeliinae, but now confirmed to be nested within Cheloninae are:
- Adelius Haliday, 1834
- Paradelius de Saeger, 1942
- Sinadelius He and Chen, 2000
- Sculptomyriola Belokobylskij, 1988