Chelonus contractus (Nees, 1816)
(a hymenopteran)

Chelonus contractus (a hymenopteran) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Chelonus contractus (a hymenopteran) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesChelonus contractus (a hymenopteran)
GenusChelonus (a genus of carapaced death wasps)
TribeChelonini (a tribe of carapaced death wasps)
SubfamilyCHELONINAE (carapaced death wasps)
FamilyBRACONIDAE (death wasps)
SuperfamilyICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon 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 Chelonus contractus (a hymenopteran)

Chelonus contractus (a hymenopteran) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Tobias, V.I. & Shaw, M.R. 2005 Rearing records of two species of Microchelonus Szepligeti from Britain, with the descrjption of a new species (Hym., Braconidae: Cheloninae) Ent. Mon. Mag. Vol 41: 15-19.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Chelonus contractus (a hymenopteran):

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