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Platygastroidea
The Hymenopteran superfamily of parasitoid wasps, Platygastroidea, has often been treated as a lineage within the superfamily Proctotrupoidea, but most classifications since 1977 have recognized it as an independent group. It is composed of two families, the Platygastridae and the Scelionidae, with a combined diversity of some 4000 described species. The two groups are unified by a number of features, the most important of which are shared unique features synapomorphies of the ovipositor and details of...
7 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first
Scelionidae
familyScelionidae
Platygastridae
familyPlatygastridae
Sparasionidae
familySparasionidae
Nixoniidae
familyNixoniidae
Neuroscelionidae
familyNeuroscelionidae
Geoscelionidae
familyGeoscelionidae
Janzenellidae
familyJanzenellidae
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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 178935.