GASTERUPTIIDAE Ashmead, 1890
(pennant wasps)

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Genus 2 subtaxa 29 images 2 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyGASTERUPTIIDAE (pennant wasps)
SuperfamilyEVANIOIDEA (ensign and pennant parasitoid 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)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Hedqvist, K.-J. 1973 *** Notes on the Superfamily Evanioidea in Sweden with Keys to Families, Genera and Species (Hym., Apocrita) ***(Superseded) Ent. Tidskr. Vol 94: 177-187.
van Achterberg, C. & Talebi, A.A. 2014 Review of Gasteruption Latreille (Hymenoptera, Gasteruptiidae) from Iran and Turkey, with the description of 15 new species ZooKeys Vol 458: 1-187.
van Achterberg, C. 2013 de Nederlandse Hongerwespen (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Gasteruptiidae) Nederlandse Faunistische Medelingen Vol 39: 55-88.

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

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for GASTERUPTIIDAE (pennant wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for GASTERUPTIIDAE (pennant wasps)
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