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Subfamily Chalcidinae


A revision of the C. maculata species group of Conura Spinola in America, north of Mexico...
By Frederick J. Moitoza
The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 70(2): 168-182, 1994
Full title: A revision of the C. maculata species group of Conura Spinola in America, north of Mexico, and a new species of the C. immaculata species group of Conura (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae)

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Revision of the chalcid-flies of the tribe Chalcidini in America north of Mexico
By B.D. Burks
Proceedings of the United States National Museum 88(3082): 237-354, 1940

Ultra‐Conserved Elements and morphology reciprocally illuminate conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses in Chalcididae
By Cruaud, Delvare, Nidelet, Sauné, Ratnasingham, Chartois, Blaimer, Gates, Brady, Faure, van Noort, Rossi, & Rasplus
Cladistics 37(1): 1-35, 2020
Full title: Ultra‐Conserved Elements and morphology reciprocally illuminate conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses in Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)

Authors: Astrid Cruaud, Gérard Delvare, Sabine Nidelet, Laure Sauné, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Marguerite Chartois, Bonnie B. Blaimer, Michael Gates, Seán G. Brady, Sariana Faure, Simon van Noort, Jean-Pierre Rossi, & Jean-Yves Rasplus

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On the New World Chalcididae
By Gérard Delvare & Zdeněk Bouček
Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 53, 466 pp., 1992

The Cecropia Chalcis Fly
By Charles V. Riley
The American Entomologist, 2(4): 101-102, 1870
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From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoid
By Burks, Mitroiu, Fusu, Heraty, Janšta, Heydon, Papilloud, Peters, Tselikh, Woolley, van Noort, Baur, Cruaud, Darling, Haas, et a
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 94: 13-88, 2022
Full author list: Roger Burks, Mircea-Dan Mitroiu, Lucian Fusu, John M. Heraty, Petr Janšta, Steve Heydon, Natalie Dale-Skey Papilloud, Ralph S. Peters, Ekaterina V. Tselikh, James B. Woolley, Simon van Noort, Hannes Baur, Astrid Cruaud, Christopher Darling, Michael Haas, Paul Hanson, Lars Krogmann, & Jean-Yves Rasplus

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Anchored phylogenomics and a revised classification of the planidial larva clade of jewel wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
By Zhang J, Heraty JM, Darling C, Kresslein RL, Baker AJ, Torréns J, Rasplus J-Y, Lemmon A, Lemmon EM
Sys. Entomol. 47: 329–353, 2022

Synopsis of the North American Species Belonging to the Genera Leucospis, Smicra and Chalcis
By E.T. Cresson
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 4, pp. 29-60, 1872