Pygostolus Haliday, 1833
(a genus of braconid wasps)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Pygostolus otiorhynchi a death wasp					Species		19 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Pygostolus (a genus of braconid wasps)
Tribe	Pygostolini (a tribe of death wasps)
Subfamily	EUPHORINAE (a subfamily of death wasps)
Family	BRACONIDAE (death 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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Haeselbarth, E.	1971	* Notizen zur Gattung Pygostolus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) *(Superseded)	Opusc. Zool. Budapest Vol 112: 1-8.
	van Achterberg, C.	1992	Revision of the European species of the genus Pygostolus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae), with a key to the Holarctic species	Zool. Med. Leiden Vol 66: 349-358.

Pygostolus (a genus of braconid wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

EUPHORINAE
(a subfamily of death wasps)

BRACONIDAE
(death 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)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Pygostolus (a genus of braconid wasps)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Pygostolus (a genus of braconid wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Pygostolus is also a member of:

Identification Works

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