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Pteromalidae
The Pteromalidae are a very large family of mostly parasitoid wasps, with some 3,450 described species in about 640 genera (the number was greater, but many species and genera have been reduced to synonymy in recent years). The subfamily-level divisions of the family are highly contentious and unstable, and the family unquestionably is completely artificial, composed of numerous, distantly related groups (polyphyletic). Accordingly, details of their life histories range over nearly the entire range possible within...
16 branches of this family, most-observed first
Pteromalinae
subfamilyPteromalinae
Miscogastrinae
subfamilyMiscogastrinae
Metasteninae
subfamilyMetasteninae
Trigonoderinae
subfamilyTrigonoderinae
Sycophaginae
subfamilySycophaginae
Colotrechninae
subfamilyColotrechninae
Ormocerinae
subfamilyOrmocerinae
Hemitrichus
genusHemitrichus
Erixestinae
subfamilyErixestinae
Eunotomyiia
genusEunotomyiia
Ausasaphes
genusAusasaphes
Systellogaster
genusSystellogaster
Mesolelaps
genusMesolelaps
Yusufia
genusYusufia
Ksenoplata
genusKsenoplata
Calolelaps
genusCalolelaps
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 125448.