Cenocoelius

Cenocoelius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Superfamily:	Ichneumonoidea
Family:	Braconidae
Genus:	Cenocoelius Westwood, 1840
Species include
C. aartseni C. analis C. ashmeadii C. californicus C. caryae C. erythrogastra C. floridanus C. huggerti C. nigrisoma C. nigriventris C. quadratus C. sanguineiventris C. saperdae C. tenuicornis ...

Cenocoelius is a genus of hymenopteran insects belonging to the family Braconidae. Those species whose life history has been studied are all koinobiont parasitoids on wood-boring beetle larvae (mainly Cerambycidae and Curculionidae but sometimes Buprestidae).

References

Kevin M. Pitz & Michael J. Sharkey (2005). "Cenocoelius huggerti, the first record of the subfamily Cenocoeliinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Africa" (PDF). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 14 (1): 92–95.

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