PTEROMALIDAE Dalman, 1820
(a family of chalcid wasps)

PTEROMALIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PTEROMALIDAE (a family of 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
Species 1 trophisms
Species 3 trophisms
Subfamily 2 subtaxa 2 trophisms 1 references
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 1 references
Genus 1 trophisms 1 references
Species 1 trophisms
Species 7 trophisms 1 references
Species 1 references
Species 1 references
Species 1 trophisms
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 1 references
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 2 trophisms
Genus 1 subtaxa 2 trophisms
Subfamily 55 subtaxa 123 trophisms 18 references
Species 1 references
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 5 trophisms 1 references
Genus 1 subtaxa 5 trophisms 1 references
Species 1 trophisms
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPTEROMALIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps)
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 PTEROMALIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Graham, M.W.R. de V. 1969 The Pteromalidae of North-western Europe (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) Bull.br.Mus.nat.Hist.Entomol. Supplement 16.

Butterfly Pupae/Primary Parasitoids

Askew, R.R.. & Shaw, M.R. 1997 Pteromalus apum (Retzius) and other Pteromalid (Hym.) primary parasitoids of butterfly pupae in western Europe, with a key Ent. Mon. Mag. Vol 133: 67-72.

Genera

Boucek, Z. & Rasplus, J.-Y. 1991 Illustrated key to West-Palearctic genera of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) Techniques et Pratiques, 140pp, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)

PTEROMALIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Shaw, M.R., Stefanescu, C. & van Nouhuys, S. Parasitoids of European butterflies Shaw, M.R., Stefanescu, C. & van Nouhuys, S. Parasitoids of European butterflies, 27pp, Ecology of Butterflies in Europe

Hosts

Hammond, H.E. & Smith, K.G.V. 1957 On some parasitic Diptera and Hymenoptera bred from lepidopterous hosts. Part 3: records of Tachinidae (Dipt.), Braconidae, Ichneumonidae, Encyrtidae, Pteromalidae, Eulophidae and Scelionidae (Hym.) Ent. Gazette 8: 181-189.

Regional/Germany

Haas, M., Baur, H., Schweizer, T., Monje, J.C., Moser, M., Bigalk, S. & Krogmann, L. 2021 Tiny wasps, huge diversity – A review of German Pteromalidae with new generic and species records (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e77092: 1-8.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to PTEROMALIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps):

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