PLATYGASTRIDAE Haliday, 1833
(platygastrid wasps)

PLATYGASTRIDAE (platygastrid wasps) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PLATYGASTRIDAE (platygastrid wasps) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
interactions
No of
references
Species 4 trophisms 1 references
Subfamily 9 subtaxa 4 trophisms 6 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPLATYGASTRIDAE (platygastrid wasps)
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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PLATYGASTRIDAE (platygastrid wasps)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Buhl, P.N. 1999 A Synopsis of the Platygastridae of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) Entomofauna: zeitschrift für entomologie Band 20 (3): 17-52.
Vlug, H.J. 1984 The types of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera, Scelionoidea) described by Haliday and Walker and preserved in the National Museum of Ireland and in the British Museum (Natural History). 2. Keys to species, redescriptions, synonymy Tijdschrift voor Entomologie Vol 127: 179-224.

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.

PLATYGASTRIDAE (platygastrid wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Notton, D.G. 2006 Genus-group taxa of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae & Platygastridae) new to Britain Ent. Mon. Mag. Vol 142: 189-206.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to PLATYGASTRIDAE (platygastrid wasps):

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