Subfamily Kelisiinae Wagner

Tribe Kelisiini Wagner

Description. Gonapophyses IX strongly curvilinear, average length 636.40–1404.35 µm, width 34.88–46.04 µm; numerous, well-rounded teeth extending half of distal margin (Fig. 15); apex porrect and blunt, dorsal margin overlapping ventral margin.

Notes. There is a single tribe in the subfamily, consisting of 52 species in two genera, with most species in Kelisia . Kelisiinae are exclusively Holarctic and closely related to Stenocraninae . Hamilton (2006) asserted that Kelisiinae should be a subtribe of Stenocraninae, but Urban et al. (2010) did not find sufficient evidence to support a sister-group relationship. Host associations are exclusively on graminoids, predominately on sedges (Ossiannilsson 1978, Nickel 2003, Bartlett & Wheeler 2007, Bartlett 2014).