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World Chalcidoidea

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera)

Agaonidae

Aphelinidae

Azotidae

Baeomorphidae (previously Rotoitidae) (Australasian [ New Zealand], Neotropical [Chile])

Boucekiidae (Australasian, Neotropical)

Calesidae (Australasian, Neotropical, Oriental, Palaearctic. Introduced Afrotropical, Nearctic)

Ceidae (Afrotropical, Nearctic, Neotropical, Palaearctic)

Cerocephalidae

Chalcedectidae (Afrotropical, Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical)

Chalcididae

Chrysolampidae

Cleonymidae

Coelocybidae

Cynipencyrtidae

Diparidae

Encyrtidae 

Epichrysomallidae

Eucharitidae

Eulophidae

Eunotidae

Eupelmidae

Eurytomidae

Eutrichosomatidae (Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical)

Herbertiidae

Hetreulophidae (Australasian)

Heydeniidae (Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental, Palaearctic)

Idioporidae (Nearctic, Neotropical)

Leucospidae

Lyciscidae

Macromesidae (worldwide, except for Neotropical)

Megastigmidae

Melanosomellidae

Metapelmatidae

Moranilidae (Afrotropical, Australasian, Nearctic, Oriental)

Mymaridae

Neanastatidae 

Neodiparidae (Afrotropical, Palaearctic)

Ooderidae

Ormyridae

Pelecinellidae (Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental)

Perilampidae

Pirenidae

Pteromalidae

Signiphoridae

Spalangiidae

Systasidae

Tanaostigmatidae

Tetracampidae

Torymidae

Trichogrammatidae

  incertae sedis taxa in Chalcidoidea not placed to family:
Asaphesinae: Asaphes Walker, Coriotela† Burks & Heraty, Hyperimerus Girault
Austrosystasinae: Austrosystasis Girault
 

Ditropinotellinae: Ditropinotella Girault

Eopelma Gibson

Enoggerinae: Ausasaphes Bouček, Enoggera Girault

Keryinae: Kerya Bouček

Louriciinae: Callimomoides Girault

Micradelinae: Micradelus Walker

Neapterolelapinae: Neapterolelaps Girault, Nosodipara Bouček, Pseudoceraphron Dodd

Parasaphodinae: Parasaphodes Schulz

 

Rivasia Askew & Nieves-Aldrey

Storeyinae: Storeya Bouček

 

Genera inquirenda unplaced to family:

Elachertoidea Girault,

Eubeckerella Narendran,

Glyphotoma Cameron,

Promerisus Kieffer,

Pyramidophoriella Hedqvist,

Selimnus Walker,

Sennia De Stefani,

Tripteromalus Kieffer

Distribution Worldwide.
Biology Parasitoids of insect (12 Orders), spider (Aranaea), mite (Acari) or nematode (Family Anguinidae) larvae (occasionally adults); or phytophagous: gall formers, seed eaters or inquilines in galls of other species.

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