MICROGASTRINAE Förster, 1863
(a subfamily of death wasps)

MICROGASTRINAE (a subfamily of death wasps) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

MICROGASTRINAE (a subfamily of death wasps) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Apantelini
a tribe of death wasps
Tribe 1 subtaxa 3 references
Cotesiini
a tribe of death wasps
Tribe 5 subtaxa 8 trophisms 10 references
Microgastrini
a tribe of death wasps
Tribe 7 subtaxa 11 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubfamilyMICROGASTRINAE (a subfamily of death wasps)
FamilyBRACONIDAE (death wasps)
SuperfamilyICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon 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)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MICROGASTRINAE (a subfamily of death wasps)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Nixon, G.E.J. 1965 A reclassification of the tribe Microgasterini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Bull.br.Mus.nat.Hist.Entomol. Supplement 2: 1-284.
Shaw, M.R. 2012 Notes on some European Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the National Museums of Scotland, with twenty species new to Britain, new host data, taxonomic changes and remarks, and descriptions of two new species of Microgaster Latreille Ent. Gazette Vol 63: 173-201.
() Tobias, V.I., Belokobylskii S.A. & Kotenko, A.G. - Sharma, B.R. (trans.) 1986 Keys to the Insects Vol III, Part IV Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Vol III (4), English translation edition, 908pp, Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

MICROGASTRINAE (a subfamily of death wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Quicke, D.L.J., Shaw, M.R., Takahashi, M. & Yanechin, B. 2004 Cocoon silk chemistry of non-cyclostome Braconidae, with remarks on phylogenetic relationships within the Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Journal of Natural History Vol 38: 2167-2181.
Whitfield, J.B. & O’Connor, J.M. Molecular systematics of wasp and polydnavirus genomes and their coevolution

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to MICROGASTRINAE (a subfamily of death wasps):

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