CHALCIDOIDEA Latreille, 1817
(chalcid wasps)

CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
interactions
No of
references
Family 2 subtaxa 2 trophisms 2 references
Family 7 subtaxa 9 trophisms 4 references
Family 14 subtaxa 17 trophisms 3 references
Family 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms 2 references
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms
Family 44 subtaxa 101 trophisms 33 references
Family 10 subtaxa 36 trophisms 10 references
Family 29 subtaxa 68 trophisms 6 references
Family 1 subtaxa 4 trophisms 2 references
Species 1 trophisms
Family 2 subtaxa 3 trophisms 2 references
Genus 2 subtaxa 3 trophisms
Family 5 subtaxa 8 trophisms 1 references
Family 72 subtaxa 148 trophisms 33 references
Family 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms 1 references
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms 1 references
Family 13 subtaxa 32 trophisms 8 references
Family 6 subtaxa 22 trophisms 4 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuperfamilyCHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Askew, R.R. 1968 Hymenoptera 2., Chalcidoidea: Section (b) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol VIII. Part 2(b), 39pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Grissell, E. & Schauff, M.E. 1990 A handbook of the families of Nearctic Chalcidoidea 85pp, Entomological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
Williams, R. 2010 Oak-galls in Britain 2 volumes, 2010 edition, 229+229pp, Vanellus Publications

Family Key

Hackston, M. A key to the British famiilies of superfamily Chalcidoidea

Family Keys

Universal Chalcidoidea Database A key to the families of Chalcidoidea and Mymaromatoidea www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/chalcidoids/keys1_14.html
() Yoshimoto, C.M. 1984 The Families and Subfamilies of Canadian Chalcidoid Wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, Part 12, 149pp, Biosystematics Research Institute Ottawa, Ontario

Gall Inhabitants/Diplolepis

Williams, R., & Randolph, S. 2006 *** Key to identification of adult insects which may emerge from Diplolepis rosae galls in Britain ***(Superseded)

Plant Galls

() Darlington, A. 1968 A Pocket Encyclopedia of Plant Galls in colour Blandford Press

CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Dale-Skey, N., Askew, R.R., Noyes, J.S., Livermore. L. & Broad, G.R. 2016 Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Chalcidoidea and Mymarommatoidea Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e8013: 1-417.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 160 images of CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps)
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