EUPELMIDAE Walker, 1833
(a family of chalcid wasps)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
EUPELMINAE a subfamily of hymenopterans					Subfamily	4 subtaxa	10 images	8 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	EUPELMIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps)
Superfamily	CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid 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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Hackston, M.	2015	Family Eupelmidae key to British genera and some species	https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeyshymenoptera/

EUPELMIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CHALCIDOIDEA
(chalcid 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 EUPELMIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 36 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for EUPELMIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

EUPELMIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)