Phytodietus Gravenhorst, 1829
(a genus of diurnal tryphonine ichneumons)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusPhytodietus (a genus of diurnal tryphonine ichneumons)
TribePhytodietini (a tribe of tryphonine ichneumon wasps)
SubfamilyTRYPHONINAE (tryphonine ichneumon wasps)
FamilyICHNEUMONIDAE (ichneumon 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
Kasparyan, D.R. (translation) 1994 Review of Palearctic Species of Wasps of the Genus Phytodietus Grav. (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) Entomological Review Vol 73 (7): 56-79.
Kasparyan, D.R. & Shaw, M.R. 2008 British and European Phytodietus Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae,Tryphoninae) in the National Museums of Scotland, with a key to European species of the subgenus Neuchorus Uchida and descriptions of three new species Ent. Gazette Vol 59: 184-198.
Kasparyan, D.R. 1994 Review of Palearctic Species of Wasps of the Genus Phytodietus Grav. (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie Vol 72 (4): 869-89.
Kostro-Ambroziak A. & Di Giovanni, F. 2016 Phytodietus elongator AUBERT, 1963 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Tryphoninae), a new species to Italy, and a key to the Italian species of the genus Phytodietus GRAVENHORST, 1829 Polish Journal of Entomology (Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne) Vol 85: 389-398.

Phytodietus (a genus of diurnal tryphonine ichneumons) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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