Document from the year 2015 in the subject Biology - Zoology, language: English, abstract: The taxonomy of the subfamily Cheloninae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) was studied in Egypt. It includes 16 species belonging to two tribes (Chelonini and Phanerotomini) and three genera (Ascogaster Wesmael, Chelonus Panzer and Phanerotoma Wesmael), of these five species are new recorded for the first time from Egypt and two (Phanerotoma (Bracotritoma) ponti sp.n. and Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) elbaiensis sp.n.) are new for science. The diagnostic characters of the different taxa under study (subfamily,...