Hedychrum niemelai Linsenmaier, 1959
(a rubytail wasp)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Hedychrum niemelai ssp niemelai
a subspecies of hymenopteran
Subspecies 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesHedychrum niemelai (a rubytail wasp)
GenusHedychrum (a genus of hymenopterans)
FamilyCHRYSIDIDAE (rubytail or cuckoo-wasps)
SuperfamilyCHRYSIDOIDEA (a superfamily of solitary wasps)
InfraorderAculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
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
Baldock, D.W. & Hawkins, R.D. 2016 Hedychrum nobile (Scopoli): a jewel-wasp new to Britain and distinct from H. niemelai Linsenmaier (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae). Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist. Vol 29: 197-208.

Hedychrum niemelai (a rubytail wasp) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Hedychrum niemelai (a rubytail wasp)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Hedychrum niemelai (a rubytail wasp)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)