PLATYGASTROIDEA Haliday, 1833
(platygastroid parasitic wasps)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
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ID refs
Calotelea
(a genus of parasitic wasps)
Genus 1 ident. refs
PLATYGASTRIDAE
platygastrid wasps
Family 7 subtaxa 10 ident. refs
SCELIONIDAE
scelionid wasps
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 		Family 4 subtaxa 14 images 8 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuperfamilyPLATYGASTROIDEA (platygastroid 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
Hackston, M. 2017 Family Proctotrupidae, key to British genus and species https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeyshymenoptera/Home/hymenoptera/apocrita-parasitica/keys-to-superfamily-platygastroidea

Key To Families

Hackston, M. *** Key to the UK families of Proctotrupoidea and Platygastroidea ***(Superseded) https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeyshymenoptera/Home/hymenoptera/apocrita-parasitica/keys-to-superfamily-platygastroidea

Non-british

Popovici, O.A., Masner, L., Notton, D.G. & Popovici, M. 2013 A review of Western Palaearctic Amblyscelio and Baryconus (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Platygastridae) Zootaxa Vol 3599 (4): 325-342.

PLATYGASTROIDEA (platygastroid parasitic wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PLATYGASTROIDEA (platygastroid parasitic wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 9 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PLATYGASTROIDEA (platygastroid parasitic wasps)
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