CHRYSIDIDAE Latreille, 1802
(rubytail or cuckoo-wasps)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Chrysis
ruby-tailed wasps
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 		Genus 4 subtaxa 21 images 3 ident. refs
Hedychridium
a genus of rubytail wasps
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 2 images 1 ident. refs
Hedychrum
a genus of hymenopterans
Genus 1 subtaxa 2 ident. refs
Pseudomalus auratus
a rubytail wasp
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 		Species 4 images
Chrysididae (unidentified)
Unidentified Rubytail or Cuckoo-wasps
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 		Unidentified 8 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyCHRYSIDIDAE (rubytail or cuckoo-wasps)
SuperfamilyCHRYSIDOIDEA (a superfamily of solitary wasps)
InfraorderAculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
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
Berland, L. & Bernard, F. 1938 *** Hyménoptères Vespiformes III (Cleptidae, Chrysidae, Trigonalidae) ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 34, 146pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
Falk, S. Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants and relatives) www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629294459686/
Gogala, A. 2016 Zlate ose Slovenije (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) - Cuckoo wasps of Slovenia (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) Scopolia: Revija Prirodoslovnega muzeja Slovenije 88.
Linsenmaier, W. 1997 Die goldwespen der Schweiz 140pp
Morgan, D. 1984 Cuckoo-Wasps: Hymenoptera, Chrysididae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 6. Part 5, 37pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Paukkunen, J., Berg, A., Soon, V., Ødegaard, F. & Rosa, P. 2015 An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species ZooKeys Vol 548: 1-116.

CHRYSIDIDAE (rubytail or cuckoo-wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CHRYSIDIDAE (rubytail or cuckoo-wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 46 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CHRYSIDIDAE (rubytail or cuckoo-wasps)
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