Ophion obscuratus agg. NEW QUALIFIER-pre Johansson (2019)
(a pair of very similar ophion wasps)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species aggregate	Ophion obscuratus agg. (a pair of very similar ophion wasps)
Genus	Ophion (ophion wasps)
Subfamily	OPHIONINAE (ophionine ichneumon wasps)
Family	ICHNEUMONIDAE (ichneumon wasps)
Superfamily	ICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic 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)

Ophion obscuratus agg. is also a member of:
Nocturnal ichneumonoids - testaceous ichneumons and braconids that are attracted to light (via Ophion)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Vas. Z.	2015	New records of ichneumon wasps in Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia with a key to the Western Palaearctic Xylophrurus species (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)	Folia Entomologica Hungarica rovartani kozlemenyek Vol 76: 223-240.

Ophion obscuratus agg. (a pair of very similar ophion wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Ophion
(ophion wasps)

OPHIONINAE
(ophionine ichneumon wasps)

ICHNEUMONIDAE
(ichneumon wasps)

ICHNEUMONOIDEA
(braconid and ichneumon parasitic 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)

Nocturnal ichneumonoids
(testaceous ichneumons and braconids that are attracted to light)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Ophion obscuratus agg. (a pair of very similar ophion wasps)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Ophion obscuratus agg. (a pair of very similar ophion wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Ophion obscuratus agg. is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)