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Hymenoptera Chrysididae: Systematics

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The fundamental morphologic features which distinguish chrysidids from the other wasps are:

reduction of the number of the visible abdominal segments to 5 or less
an internal ovipositor or genital tube, constituted by the remaining abdominal segments
11 antennal articles (flagellomeres), plus pedicel and scape
labial palps with 3 articles and maxillar palps with 5 articles
fore wings with 5 closed cells, or less, and
hind wings without closed cells.

On the base of the Zoological Record (Vol. 134), Chrysidids are ranked in the taxonomic hierachy as Aculeate Wasps ("wasps" equipped by a vulnerant apparatus) and their position is the following:

Class Insecta
     Order Hymenoptera
          Suborder Apocrita
               Group Aculeata
                    Superfamily Chrysidoidea

                         Family Chrysididae

                              - Subfamily: Cleptinae
                              - Subfamily: Amiseginae
                              - Subfamily: Loboscelidiinae
                              - Subfamily: Chrysidinae
                              - Subfamily: Parnopinae

Table of Subfamilies and of Genera

Chrysididae

Cleptinae*

Amiseginae

Loboscelidiinae

Chrysidinae*

Parnopinae*

CLEPTES *

CLEPTIDEA

ADELPHE
AFROSEGA
ALIENISCUS
AMISEGA
ANACHRYSIS
ANADELPHE
ATOPOSEGA
BAEOSEGA
BUPON
CLADOBETHYLUS
COLOCAR
DUCKEIA
EXOPAPUA
EXOVA
IMASEGA
INDOTHRIX
ISEGAMA
KIMSEYA
KRYPTOSEGA
LEPTOSEGA
MAGDALIUM
MAHINDA
MICROSEGA
MYRMECOMIMESIS
NESOGYNE
NIPPONOSEGA
OBENBERGERELLA
PERISSOSEGA
REIDIA
ROHWERIA
SALTASEGA
SERENDIBULA

LOBOSCELIDIA

RHADINOSCELIDIA

(Allocoeliini)

ALLOCOELIA

(Elampini)*

ADELOPYGA
DIPLORRHOS
ELAMPUS *
EXALLOPYGA
HABA
HEDYCHREIDES
HEDYCHRIDIUM *
HEDYCHRUM *
HOLOPHRIS
HOLOPYGA *
MICROCHRIDIUM
MINYMISCHA
MUESEBECKIDIUM
OMALUS *
PARACHRUM
PROCHRIDIUM
PSEUDOLOPYGA
PSEUDOMALUS *
XEROCHRUM

(Chrysidini)*

ALLOCHRYSIS
ARGOCHRYSIS
CAENOCHRYSIS
CERATOCHRYSIS
CHRYSIS *
CHRYSURA *
CHRYSURISSA
EUCHROEUS *
EXOCHRYSIS
GAULLEA
IPSIURA
NEOCHRYSIS
ODONTOCHRYDIUM
PENTACHRYSIS *
PLEUROCHRYSIS
PRAESTOCHRYSIS *
PRIMEUCHROEUS
PSEUDOSPINOLIA *
SPINOLIA *
SPINTHARINA *
SPINTHAROSOMA
STILBICHRYSIS
STILBUM *
TRICHRYSIS *

CEPHALOPARNOPS

ISADELPHIA

PARNOPES *

* the asterisk indicates the presence of the Genus in Europe

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