Spathius pedestris Wesmael, 1838
(a hymenopteran)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Spathius pedestris (a hymenopteran)
Genus	Spathius (a genus of hymenopterans)
Tribe	Spathiini (a tribe of death wasps)
Subfamily	DORYCTINAE (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)

Spathius pedestris is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Belokobylskij, S.A. & Kula, R.R.	2012	Review of the brachypterous, micropterous, and apterous Braconidae of the cyclostome lineage (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from the Palearctic Region	Zootaxa Vol 3240: 1-62.

Spathius pedestris (a hymenopteran) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

DORYCTINAE
(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 Spathius pedestris (a hymenopteran)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Spathius pedestris (a hymenopteran)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Spathius pedestris is also a member of:

Identification Works

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