Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Chelonus buscki
Avispa parasitoide, Parasitoid wasp
A detailed description of this species can be found in Papp (2016)
This species had been found in humid zones over 250 masl. The first report of this species in the Galapagos was made in the work of Sandoval et al. (2024).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Superfamily
Ichneumonoidea
Family
Braconidae
Genus
Chelonus
Species
buscki
Taxon category: Accepted
- Papp, J. (2016) First survey of the Neotropical species of Microchelonus Szépligeti with descriptions of twenty-five new species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 62(3), 217-344.
- Sandoval-B, A. L., Shaw, S. R., Herrera, H. W., & Sarmiento, C. E. (2024) Diversity and differentiation of the Chelonus (Microchelonus) species of the Galapagos archipelago (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 97, 825-848.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Chelonus buscki", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25531. Accessed 2 November 2026.