CYNIPOIDEA Latreille, 1802
(cynipoid parasitic wasps)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
CYNIPIDAE gall wasps etc	Family	35 subtaxa	425 images	20 ident. refs
EUCOLIDAE fly endoparasitic wasps	Family			1 ident. refs
FIGITIDAE a family of insect endoparasitoid wasps	Family	2 subtaxa		4 ident. refs
IBALIIDAE woodwasp larvae endoparasitoid wasps	Family			2 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	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
Key To Families
	Hackston, M.		Key to families of the British Cynipoidea
Plant Galls
()	Darlington, A.	1968	A Pocket Encyclopedia of Plant Galls in colour	Blandford Press

CYNIPOIDEA (cynipoid parasitic wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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 CYNIPOIDEA (cynipoid parasitic wasps)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 509 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CYNIPOIDEA (cynipoid parasitic wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

CYNIPOIDEA is also a member of:

Identification Works

Key To Families

Plant Galls

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