Calliscelio elegans
| Calliscelio elegans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Scelionidae |
| Genus: | Calliscelio |
| Species: | C. elegans
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| Binomial name | |
| Calliscelio elegans (Perkins, 1910)
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Calliscelio elegans is a species of parasitoid wasp in the family Scelionidae.
Biology
[edit]Although no specific host record is published to date, it is suspected that C. elegans parasitizes the eggs of Gryllidae species, as is the case in C. teleogrylli.[2][3] In Nepal, C. elegans occurs up to 2000 m of elevation.[2]
Distribution
[edit]The species is widespread throughout the tropics, but is always relatively rare. It is considered an adventive species, accidentally introduced in many regions of the world. Calliscelio elegans is reported to occur in Benin, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nigeria and Yemen in the Afrotropical realm, in India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand in the Indomalayan realm, in Australia, on Christmas Island, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam and Samoa in the Australasian and Oceanian realms, and in the Americas in Belize, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the United States, where it is recorded from Florida and Hawaii.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]The species was first described in 1910 by British entomologist Robert Cyril Layton Perkins as Caloteleia elegans based on material collected on Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands.[4] In 1926, French entomologist Jean-Jacques Kieffer transferred Calliscelio elegans from its original genus Caloteleia to the newly created monotypic genus Caenoteleia Kieffer, 1926.[5] Later, Caenoteleia was synonymised with Calliscelio, and the species was moved to its current genus combination.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Rajmohana, Keloth; Peter, Abhilash; Narendran, T. C. (2013-09-16). "First record of the male of the widespread Calliscelio elegans (Perkins) (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) along with some taxonomic notes on the species". Biodiversity Data Journal. 1: e983. doi:10.3897/BDJ.1.e983. PMC 3964722. PMID 24723776.
- ^ a b c d Masner, Lubomír; Johnson, Norman F.; Musetti, Luciana (2009). "Calliscelio elegans (Perkins), a tramp species, and a review of the status of the genus Caenoteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)". Zootaxa. 2237: 59–66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2237.1.4.
- ^ Hill, R. L. (1983). "Two egg parasites (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) of the black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), in New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 10 (1): 57–62. doi:10.1080/03014223.1983.10423890. ISSN 0301-4223.
- ^ Perkins, R.C.L. (1910). "Supplement to Hymenoptera" (PDF). Fauna Hawaiiensis, or the Zoology of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Isles. 2 (6): 624–625. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ^ Kieffer, Jean-Jacques (1926). "Scelionidae" (PDF). Das Tierreich. 48: 550. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2016.