BRACHISTINAE Förster, 1863
(a subfamily of death wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubfamilyBRACHISTINAE (a subfamily of death wasps)
FamilyBRACONIDAE (death wasps)
SuperfamilyICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic 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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Mason, W.R.M. 1974 A generic synopsis of Brachistini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and recognition of the name Charmon Haliday. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington Vol 76 (3): 235-46.
() Tobias, V.I., Belokobylskii S.A. & Kotenko, A.G. - Sharma, B.R. (trans.) 1986 Keys to the Insects Vol III, Part IV Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Vol III (4), English translation edition, 908pp, Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

BRACHISTINAE (a subfamily of death wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for BRACHISTINAE (a subfamily of death wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 18 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for BRACHISTINAE (a subfamily of death wasps)
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