Chelonus miscellae (Tobias & Shaw, 2005)
(a hymenopteran)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	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.

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

Chelonus
(a genus of carapaced death wasps)

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 miscellae (a hymenopteran)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Chelonus miscellae (a hymenopteran)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Chelonus miscellae is also a member of:

Identification Works

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