CHALCIDOIDEA Latreille, 1817
(chalcid wasps)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
APHELINIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Family 2 ident. refs
CHALCIDIDAE
thick-legged chalcid wasps
Family 1 ident. refs
EUCHARITIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Family 2 ident. refs
EULOPHIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Male (Click to open)
 		Family 21 subtaxa 15 images 26 ident. refs
EUPELMIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Female (Click to open)
 		Family 4 subtaxa 10 images 9 ident. refs
EURYTOMIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Female (Click to open)
 		Family 4 subtaxa 7 images 6 ident. refs
MYMARIDAE
a family of fairyflies
Family 2 ident. refs
ORMYRIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Family 2 ident. refs
PERILAMPIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Family 1 ident. refs
PTEROMALIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Female (Click to open)
 		Family 24 subtaxa 58 images 25 ident. refs
TETRACAMPIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Family 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
TETRACAMPINAE
a subfamily of hymenopterans
Subfamily 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
TORYMIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Male (Click to open)
 		Family 7 subtaxa 63 images 6 ident. refs
TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE
a family of chalcid wasps
Family 1 ident. refs
Chalcidoidea (unidentified)
Unidentified Chalcid Wasps
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 		Unidentified 7 images
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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
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:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 453 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid wasps)
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