PLATYGASTRIDAE Haliday, 1833
(platygastrid wasps)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Fidiobia hispanica
a platygastrid wasp
Species 1 ident. refs
PLATYGASTRINAE
a subfamily of hymenopterans
Subfamily 6 subtaxa 6 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPLATYGASTRIDAE (platygastrid wasps)
SuperfamilyPLATYGASTROIDEA (platygastroid parasitic wasps)
InfraorderParasitica (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
Buhl, P.N. 1999 A Synopsis of the Platygastridae of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) Entomofauna: zeitschrift für entomologie Band 20 (3): 17-52.
Vlug, H.J. 1984 The types of Platygastridae (Hymenoptera, Scelionoidea) described by Haliday and Walker and preserved in the National Museum of Ireland and in the British Museum (Natural History). 2. Keys to species, redescriptions, synonymy Tijdschrift voor Entomologie Vol 127: 179-224.

Non-british

Popovici, O.A., Masner, L., Notton, D.G. & Popovici, M. 2013 A review of Western Palaearctic Amblyscelio and Baryconus (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea, Platygastridae) Zootaxa Vol 3599 (4): 325-342.

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

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PLATYGASTRIDAE (platygastrid wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 8 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for PLATYGASTRIDAE (platygastrid wasps)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)