Microgaster arctostaphylica Shaw, 2012
(a braconid wasp)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Microgaster arctostaphylica (a braconid wasp)
Genus	Microgaster (a genus of death wasps)
Tribe	Microgastrini (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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Shaw, M.R.	2012	Notes on some European Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the National Museums of Scotland, with twenty species new to Britain, new host data, taxonomic changes and remarks, and descriptions of two new species of Microgaster Latreille	Ent. Gazette Vol 63: 173-201.

Microgaster arctostaphylica (a braconid wasp) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Microgaster
(a genus of 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 Microgaster arctostaphylica (a braconid wasp)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Microgaster arctostaphylica (a braconid wasp)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Microgaster arctostaphylica is also a member of:

Identification Works

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