The subfamily Cheloninae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Egypt, with the description of two new species.

Edmardash Yusuf Abd-Elaziz, Abdel-Dayem Mahmoud Saleh, Gadallah Neveen Samy

Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

Zookeys. 2011(115):85-102. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.115.1186. Epub 2011 Jul 5.

A key to the chelonine species (Braconidae) (both recorded and recently collected) from Egypt is given. It includes 16 species, of which five species are new to the Egyptian fauna and two (Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) elbaiensissp. n. and Phanerotoma (Bracotritoma) pontisp. n.) are new for science. A faunistic list and the description for the two new species are added.