Polemochartus melas (Giraud, 1863)
(a death wasp)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Polemochartus melas (a death wasp)
Genus	Polemochartus (a genus of alysiine death wasps)
Tribe	Dacnusini (a tribe of death wasps)
Subfamily	ALYSIINAE (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)

Polemochartus melas is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Shaw, M.R. & Jennings, M.T.	2008	Polemochartus melas (Giraud) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Alysiinae) new to Britain	Ent. Gazette Vol 59: 114-116.

Polemochartus melas (a death wasp) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Polemochartus
(a genus of alysiine death wasps)

Dacnusini
(a tribe of death wasps)

ALYSIINAE
(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 Polemochartus melas (a death wasp)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Polemochartus melas (a death wasp)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Polemochartus melas is also a member of:

Identification Works

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