Pteromalus hieracii (Thomson, 1878)
(a chalcid wasp)

Interactions where Pteromalus hieracii is the dominant partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
		is associated with gall			Aulacidea follioti	a gall wasp	Hymenoptera: Cynipidae	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic, Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Pteromalus hieracii/	Pteromalus hieracii	a chalcid wasp					Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Aulacidea follioti/	Aulacidea follioti	a gall wasp			gall
larva		larva is associated with larva			Aulacidea hieracii	Hawkweed Stem-gall Wasp	Hymenoptera: Cynipidae	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic, Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Pteromalus hieracii/	Pteromalus hieracii	a chalcid wasp				larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Aulacidea hieracii/	Aulacidea hieracii	hawkweed stem-gall wasp				larva
larva		larva is associated with larva			Aulacidea tragopogonis	Goat’s-beard Stem-gall Wasp	Hymenoptera: Cynipidae	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic, Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Pteromalus hieracii/	Pteromalus hieracii	a chalcid wasp				larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Aulacidea tragopogonis/	Aulacidea tragopogonis	goat's-beard stem-gall wasp				larva
larva		larva is associated with larva			Isocolus jaceae	a gall wasp	Hymenoptera: Cynipidae	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic, Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Pteromalus hieracii/	Pteromalus hieracii	a chalcid wasp				larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Isocolus jaceae/	Isocolus jaceae	a gall wasp				larva
larva		larva is associated with larva			Isocolus scabiosae	a gall wasp	Hymenoptera: Cynipidae	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic, Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Pteromalus hieracii/	Pteromalus hieracii	a chalcid wasp				larva	Animal / associate		Foreign	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Isocolus scabiosae/	Isocolus scabiosae	a gall wasp				larva
larva		larva is associated with larva			Aylax papaveris	a gall wasp	Hymenoptera: Cynipidae	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic, Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Pteromalus hieracii/	Pteromalus hieracii	a chalcid wasp				larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Aylax papaveris/	Aylax papaveris	a gall wasp				larva
larva		larva is associated with gall			Phanacis caulicola	a gall wasp	Hymenoptera: Cynipidae	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic, Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Pteromalus hieracii/	Pteromalus hieracii	a chalcid wasp				larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Phanacis caulicola/	Phanacis caulicola	a gall wasp			gall
		is associated with			Phanacis centaureae	a gall wasp	Hymenoptera: Cynipidae	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic, Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Pteromalus hieracii/	Pteromalus hieracii	a chalcid wasp					Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Phanacis centaureae/	Phanacis centaureae	a gall wasp
		is associated with			Phanacis hypochoeridis	a gall wasp	Hymenoptera: Cynipidae	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic, Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Pteromalus hieracii/	Pteromalus hieracii	a chalcid wasp					Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Phanacis hypochoeridis/	Phanacis hypochoeridis	a gall wasp
larva		larva is associated with gall			Timaspis lusitanica	a gall-wasp	Hymenoptera: Cynipidae	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic, Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Pteromalidae/Pteromalus hieracii/	Pteromalus hieracii	a chalcid wasp				larva	Animal / associate		UK and/or Eire	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Cynipidae/Timaspis lusitanica/	Timaspis lusitanica	a gall-wasp			gall

Author & Year	Title	Source
Askew, R.R., Plantard, O., Gomez, J.F., Nieves, M.H. & Nieves-Aldrey, J.L., 2006	Catalogue of parasitoids and inquilines in galls of Aylacini, Diplolepidini and Pediaspidini (Hym., Cynipidae) in the West Palaearctic	Zootaxa 1301.

Pteromalus hieracii (a chalcid wasp) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

Pteromalus hieracii (a chalcid wasp) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

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)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Pteromalus hieracii (a chalcid wasp)
Genus	Pteromalus (a genus of chalcid wasps)
Subfamily	PTEROMALINAE (a subfamily of chalcid wasps)
Family	PTEROMALIDAE (a family of chalcid wasps)
Superfamily	CHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid 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)

Pteromalus hieracii is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Pteromalus hieracii (a chalcid wasp)

Pteromalus hieracii (a chalcid wasp) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

PTEROMALIDAE
(a family of chalcid wasps)

CHALCIDOIDEA
(chalcid 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)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Pteromalus hieracii (a chalcid wasp):

PTEROMALIDAE
(a family of chalcid wasps)

CHALCIDOIDEA
(chalcid wasps)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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