#for anything that didn't fit any of the other established chalcidoid families
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Submitter comment: "this is a personal favorite of mine. the moby dick reference is well-deserved for the task of reworking what was essentially a burning dumpster fire of a taxon"
#submission#entomology#chalcidoidea#pteromalidae#literally in the paper they mention that pteromalidae has basically been used as a dumping ground#for anything that didn't fit any of the other established chalcidoid families#so it was this massive polyphyletic mess#taxonomy
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