MICROGASTRINAE Förster, 1863
(a subfamily of death wasps)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Apantelini
a tribe of death wasps
Tribe 1 subtaxa 2 ident. refs
Cotesiini
a tribe of death wasps
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 		Tribe 3 subtaxa 2 images 5 ident. refs
Microgastrini
a tribe of death wasps
Female (Click to open)
 		Tribe 9 subtaxa 30 images 11 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubfamilyMICROGASTRINAE (a subfamily of death wasps)
FamilyBRACONIDAE (death wasps)
SuperfamilyICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)
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
Nixon, G.E.J. 1965 A reclassification of the tribe Microgasterini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Bull.br.Mus.nat.Hist.Entomol. Supplement 2: 1-284.
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.
() Tobias, V.I., Belokobylskii S.A. & Kotenko, A.G. - Sharma, B.R. (trans.) 1986 Keys to the Insects Vol III, Part IV Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Vol III (4), English translation edition, 908pp, Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

MICROGASTRINAE (a subfamily of death wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MICROGASTRINAE (a subfamily of death wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 8 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for MICROGASTRINAE (a subfamily of death wasps)
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