Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Chalcidoidea
Familia: Tetracampidae
Subfamiliae (3 extinct + 3 living): † Baeomorphinae - † Bouceklytinae - † Distylopinae - Mongolocampinae - Platynocheilinae - Tetracampinae
Overview of genera (12 living + 5 fossil)
† Baeomorpha – † Bouceklytus – Cassidocida – Diplesiostigma – Dipriocampe – † Distylopus – † Electrocampe – Epiclerus – Eremocampe – Foersterella – Kilomotoia – † Minutoma – Mongolocampe – Niticampe – Platyneurus – Platynocheilus – Tetracampe
Source(s) of checklist:
Checklist based uncritically on UCD
Name
Tetracampidae Förster, 1856
The Tetracampidae are a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea. They are parasitoids of phytophagous insects, primarily flies. The 44 species in 15 genera are almost entirely absent from the New World.
The biology of most species of Tetracampidae is little studied. Most of those whose hosts are known are associated with insects that mine in plants. European species of one genus, Dipriocampe, are endoparasitoids of the eggs of diprionid sawflies, and the British species of Foersterella are endoparasitoids of the eggs of Cassida spp. (Coleoptera, Cassididae). One species, Dipriocampe diprioni, was introduced into Canada from Europe for the biological control of diprionid pests, but did not become established.[1]
In Africa and Madagascar, members of this family are egg parasitoids of beetles (Chrysomelidae) and wasps (Diprionidae), or larval parasitoids of flies (Agromyzidae).[2]
Numerous fossil taxa are in this group, but their relationships to other chalcidoid families remain obscure.
References
"HYMENOPTERA, Tetracampidae (Chalcidoidea)". University of California, Riverside. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
"Tetracampidae: Tetracampid wasps of the Afrotropical Region". WaspWeb. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
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