Cotesia glomerata (Linnaeus, 1758)
(a death wasp)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Cotesia glomerata (a death wasp)
Genus	Cotesia (a genus of microgastrine death wasps)
Tribe	Cotesiini (a tribe of death wasps)
Subfamily	MICROGASTRINAE (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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Harvey, J.A., Wagenaar, R. & Bezemer, T.M.	2009	Life-history traits in closely related secondary parasitoids sharing the same primary parasitoid host: evolutionary opportunities and constraints	Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata Vol 132: 155-164.
	Kankare, M. & Shaw, M.R.	2003	Molecular phylogeny of Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) parasitoids associated with Melitaeini butterflies (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Melitaeini)	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Cotesia glomerata (a death wasp) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Cotesia
(a genus of microgastrine death wasps)

MICROGASTRINAE
(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 Cotesia glomerata (a death wasp)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Cotesia glomerata (a death wasp)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Cotesia glomerata is also a member of:

Identification Works

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