CHELONINAE Förster, 1863
(carapaced death wasps)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Chelonini
a tribe of carapaced death wasps
Male (Click to open)
 		Tribe 3 subtaxa 8 images 3 ident. refs
Phanerotomini
a tribe of carapaced death wasps
Tribe 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
() Tobias, V.I., Belokobylskii S.A. & Kotenko, A.G. - Sharma, B.R. (trans.) 1986 Keys to the Insects Vol III, Part IV Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Vol III (4), English translation edition, 908pp, Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Generic Key

van Achterberg, C. 1990 Revision of the Western Palaearctic Phanerotomini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden): 3-106.

CHELONINAE (carapaced death wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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