Polyblastus Hartig, 1837
(a genus of tryphonine ichneumons)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Polyblastus varitarsus a tryphonine ichneumon					Species		27 images
Polyblastus westringi a tryphonine ichneumon					Species		23 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Polyblastus (a genus of tryphonine ichneumons)
Tribe	Tryphonini (a tribe of tryphonine ichneumon wasps)
Subfamily	TRYPHONINAE (tryphonine ichneumon wasps)
Family	ICHNEUMONIDAE (ichneumon wasps)
Superfamily	ICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Polyblastus is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Kasparyan, D.R. (trans.: Chakravarthy, R.S.)	1981	Ichneumonidae (Subfamily Tryphoninae) Tribe Tryphonini	Fauna of the USSR, New Series, No. 106, English translation edition, 388 + indexpp, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Polyblastus (a genus of tryphonine ichneumons) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Tryphonini
(a tribe of tryphonine ichneumon wasps)

TRYPHONINAE
(tryphonine ichneumon wasps)

ICHNEUMONIDAE
(ichneumon wasps)

ICHNEUMONOIDEA
(braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Polyblastus (a genus of tryphonine ichneumons)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Polyblastus is also a member of:

Identification Works

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