CYNIPINAE
(gall wasps)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Liposthenus latreillei a gall wasp					Species		1 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Subfamily	CYNIPINAE (gall wasps)
Family	CYNIPIDAE (gall wasps etc)
Superfamily	CYNIPOIDEA (cynipoid 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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Williams, R.	2010	Oak-galls in Britain	2 volumes, 2010 edition, 229+229pp, Vanellus Publications
Key To Species (Including Galls)
	Eady R.D. & Quinlan, J.	1963	Hymenoptera - Cynipoidea, Key to families and subfamilies and Cynipinae (including galls)	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol VIII, Part 1 (a), 81pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

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

CYNIPIDAE
(gall wasps etc)

CYNIPOIDEA
(cynipoid 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)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 11 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CYNIPINAE (gall wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

CYNIPINAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Key To Species (Including Galls)

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)