{{short description|Species of wasp}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Calliscelio elegans | authority = (Perkins, 1910) | synonyms = *''Caloteleia elegans'' <small>Perkins, 1910</small> *''Caenoteleia elegans'' <small>(Perkins, 1910)</small> *''Calotelea tanugatra'' <small>Narendran, 1998</small><ref name="Rajmohana-eal-2013">{{cite journal |last1=Rajmohana |first1=Keloth |last2=Peter |first2=Abhilash |last3=Narendran |first3=T. C. |title=First record of the male of the widespread ''Calliscelio elegans'' (Perkins) (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) along with some taxonomic notes on the species |journal=Biodiversity Data Journal |date=2013-09-16 |volume=1 |pages=e983 |pmid=24723776 |doi=10.3897/BDJ.1.e983 |pmc=3964722 |doi-access=free }}</ref> }}
'''''Calliscelio elegans''''' is a species of parasitoid wasp in the family Scelionidae.
==Biology== 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''.<ref name="Masner-eal-2009">{{cite journal |last1=Masner |first1=Lubomír |last2=Johnson |first2=Norman F. |last3=Musetti |first3=Luciana |date=2009 |title=''Calliscelio elegans'' (Perkins), a tramp species, and a review of the status of the genus ''Caenoteleia'' Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2237 |pages=59–66 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2237.1.4 |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2237.1.4/29451 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Hill |first=R. L. |date=1983 |title=Two egg parasites (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) of the black field cricket, ''Teleogryllus commodus'' (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), in New Zealand |journal=New Zealand Journal of Zoology |language=en |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=57–62 |doi=10.1080/03014223.1983.10423890 |issn=0301-4223|doi-access=free }}</ref> In Nepal, ''C. elegans'' occurs up to 2000 m of elevation.<ref name="Masner-eal-2009"/>
==Distribution== 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.<ref name="Masner-eal-2009"/>
==Taxonomy== 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Perkins |first1=R.C.L. |title=Supplement to Hymenoptera |journal=Fauna Hawaiiensis, or the Zoology of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Isles |date=1910 |volume=2 |issue=6 |pages=624–625 |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/pdf_X/Perkin910.pdf |access-date=2025-03-17 }}</ref> In 1926, French entomologist Jean-Jacques Kieffer transferred ''Calliscelio elegans'' from its original genus ''Caloteleia'' to the newly created monotypic genus ''Caenoteleia'' <small>Kieffer, 1926</small>.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kieffer |first=Jean-Jacques |title=Scelionidae |journal=Das Tierreich |date=1926 |volume=48 |pages=550 |url=http://128.146.250.117/pdfs-osuc/310/310.pdf |accessdate=8 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221101643/http://128.146.250.117/pdfs-osuc/310/310.pdf|archive-date=21 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Later, ''Caenoteleia'' was synonymised with ''Calliscelio'', and the species was moved to its current genus combination.<ref name="Masner-eal-2009"/>
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Category:Scelioninae Category:Insects described in 1910 Category:Taxa named by Robert Cyril Layton Perkins