MYMARIDAE Haliday, 1833
(a family of fairyflies)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyMYMARIDAE (a family of fairyflies)
SuperfamilyCHALCIDOIDEA (chalcid 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
Hincks, W.D. 1960 Some additions to the British Mymaridae (Hym., Chalcidoidea) Ent. Mon. Mag. Vol 95: 210-216.
() Hincks, W.D. 1952 The British species of the genus Ooctonus Haliday, with a note on some recent work on the fairy flies (Hym., Mymaridae) Transactions of the Society for British Entomology Vol 11 (7): 153-163.

MYMARIDAE (a family of fairyflies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MYMARIDAE (a family of fairyflies)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for MYMARIDAE (a family of fairyflies)
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