%0 Journal Article %T Grado de curador¨ªa de la colecci¨®n de Diapriidae (Hymenoptera) del Museo de La Plata, Argentina %A Loi¨¢cono %A Marta %A Margar¨ªa %A Cecilia %J Revista de la Sociedad Entomol£¿3gica Argentina %D 2011 %I Sociedad Entomol¨®gica Argentina %X this contribution concerns the application of the biological-taxonomic and geographic-representation of the diapriidae collection housed at the entomology division of the museo de la plata. the main results of the three subfamilies represented in the collection were: ambositrinae and diapriinae, 62.03% and 64.28% of specimens identified to genus level, respectively and belytinae with 60.93% at subfamily level. neuqu¨¦n and misiones are the argentinian provinces with the largest geographical representativity in taxonomical terms. the genera with greater number of samples are dissoxylabis kieffer (74.28%), gladicauda early (53.89%) and spilomicrus westwood (37.45%). we also provide a list of the taxa represented in the collection. in terms of taxonomic coverage, the collection contains specimens from three of the four subfamilies of diapriidae and about 80% of the genera present in the neotropical region. %K diapriidae %K collection %K museo de la plata %K argentina %K curatory. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0373-56802011000200013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en