The family Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) is reviewed with the goal of providing
nomenclatural changes and morphological diagnoses in preparation for a new molecular …

Beetles occur in most terrestrial and freshwater habitats and a few occupy marine
environments. The most common life‐cycle type in beetles is holometaboly. More …

Chalcidoidea are mostly parasitoid wasps that include as many as 500 000 estimated
species. Capturing phylogenetic signal from such a massive radiation can be daunting …

Reports of hymenopterans associated with ants involve more than 500 species, but only a
fraction unambiguously pertain to actual parasitoids. In this paper, we attempt to provide an …

It is thought that speciation in phytophagous insects is often due to colonization of novel host
plants, because radiations of plant and insect lineages are typically asynchronous. Recent …

The most widely recognized hymenopterans–ants, bees, and wasps or hornets–have long
been part of art, ritual, and folklore worldwide. Both extant and extinct Hymenoptera were …

Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) is extremely diverse with an estimated 500 000 species. We
present the first phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily based on both morphological and …

An understanding of the species richness of parasitoids, where they are most diverse, and
how they interact is necessary for implementing effective insect pest management …

Abstract The superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) is a diverse
group of parasitoid wasps that are parasitoids of nine orders of insects as well as spiders …

Previous molecular analyses of higher hymenopteran relationships have largely been
based on subjectively aligned ribosomal sequences (18S and 28S). Here, we reanalyze the …