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Genus Platygaster


World Review and Keys to Genera of the Subfamily Inostemmatinae with Reassignment of the Taxa to the Platygastrinae and...
By Masner L, Huggert L
Memoirs of the Entomological. Society of Canada, 147:3-214 (supplement), 1989
full title is "World Review and Keys to Genera of the Subfamily Inostemmatinae with Reassignment of the Taxa to the Platygastrinae and Sceliotrachelinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)"

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4039/entm121147fv

Integrative Taxonomy of Platygastrine Wasps of Germany
By Awad J
University of Hohenheim, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Biology, 2023

Revision of the North American Wasps of the subfamily Platygasterinae
By Fouts RM
Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 63 (2484):1–145, 1924
https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/15285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.63-2484.1

The taxonomy presented in this paper is/may be obsolete

Revisionary notes and keys to world genera of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidae)
By Lubomir Masner
Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, Vol. 108, Suppl. S97, pp 1-87, January, 1976
The subfamilies of Scelionidae in this reference are now under Platygastridae in Bugguide.

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An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha)...
By Chen H, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Valerio AA et al.
Systematic Entomology Volume 46 (4): 1088-1113, 2021
full title is "An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification"
full author list is "Chen H, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Valerio AA, Popovici OA, Musetti L, Klompen H, Polaszek A, Masner L, Austin AD, Johnson NF"

open access at the journal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12511

An online photographic catalog of primary types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History...
By Talamas EJ, Thompson J, Cutler A, Fitzsimmons-Schoenberger S, Cuminale A, Jung T et al.
Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56: 187–224, 2017
full title is "An online photographic catalog of primary types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution"
full list of authors: Talamas EJ, Thompson J, Cutler A, Fitzsimmons-Schoenberger S, Cuminale A, Jung T, Johnson NF, Valerio AA, Smith AB, Haltermann V, Alvarez E, Schwantes C, Blewer C, Bodenreider C, Salzberg A, Luo P, Meislin D, Buffington ML

doi: 10.3897/jhr.56.10774
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Taxa covered include some from North America and the Caribbean. Unfortunately, the links to pages a

Nearctic species of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) that parasitize the eggs of grasshoppers
By C.F.W. Muesebeck
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 122. 33 pp. , 1972
Available online here.

Three New Southeastern Parasitic Hymenoptera
By Carl F. W. Muesebeck
The Florida Entomologist, 50(1): 57-61, 1967
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Includes descriptions for 2 Diapriidae (Trichopria myoleptae & T. dentata) and 1 Braconidae (Macrocentrus dioryctriae, now accepted as Hymenochaonia dioryctriae).