Chelonus Panzer, 1806
(a genus of carapaced death wasps)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Chelonus miscellae a hymenopteran					Species			1 ident. refs
Chelonus (unidentified) Unidentified Chelonus Carapaced Death Wasps					Unidentified		8 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Chelonus (a genus of carapaced death wasps)
Tribe	Chelonini (a tribe of carapaced death wasps)
Subfamily	CHELONINAE (carapaced death wasps)
Family	BRACONIDAE (death wasps)
Superfamily	ICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Chelonus is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Papp, J.	1997	Revision of the Chelonus s. str. species described by C. G. Thomson (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Cheloninae)	Stobaeana Issue 10: 1-23.

Chelonus (a genus of carapaced death wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CHELONINAE
(carapaced death wasps)

BRACONIDAE
(death wasps)

ICHNEUMONOIDEA
(braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Chelonus (a genus of carapaced death wasps)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Chelonus (a genus of carapaced death wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Chelonus is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)