page_title: Scelioninae
section_title: Biology
hierarchical_section_title: Scelioninae / Biology
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Telenomus sp (L. Fusu ID) émergeant d'oeufs d'Hétéroptère, probablement Liorhyssus hyalinus, (Rhopalidae) pondus sur Lactuca serriola. English: Telenomus sp (L. Fusu ID) emerging from eggs of Heteroptera, probably Liorhyssus hyalinus (Rhopalidae), laid on Lactuca serriola.
context_page_description: Scelioninae is a subfamily of wasps in the family Platygastridae. It is a very large cosmopolitan group of exclusively parasitoid wasps, mostly small, often black, often highly sculptured, with elbowed antennae that have a 9- or 10-segmented flagellum. It was formerly considered to be a family Scelionidae but has been reclassified as a subfamily of the Platygastridae.
  The subfamilies Scelioninae, Teleasinae, and Telenominae were formerly in the family Scelionidae, but Scelionidae was combined with the family Platygastridae because of genetic similarities. The name Platygastridae was retained for the resulting family because of seniority.
context_section_description: They are generally idiobionts, attacking the eggs of many different types of insects, spiders, butterflies (the hackberry emperor, for example) and many are important in biological control. Several genera are wingless, and a few attack aquatic insect eggs underwater.
caption: Telenomus sp.
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