CYNIPOIDEA Latreille, 1802
(cynipoid parasitic wasps)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
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No of
ID refs
Agamic Female (Click to open)
Family 35 subtaxa 425 images 20 ident. refs
Family 1 ident. refs
Family 2 subtaxa 4 ident. refs
Family 2 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuperfamilyCYNIPOIDEA (cynipoid parasitic 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
Eady R.D. & Quinlan, J. 1963 Hymenoptera - Cynipoidea, Key to families and subfamilies and Cynipinae (including galls) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol VIII, Part 1 (a), 81pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Key To Families

Hackston, M. Key to families of the British Cynipoidea

Plant Galls

() Darlington, A. 1968 A Pocket Encyclopedia of Plant Galls in colour Blandford Press

CYNIPOIDEA (cynipoid parasitic wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CYNIPOIDEA (cynipoid parasitic wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 509 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CYNIPOIDEA (cynipoid parasitic wasps)
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