Pompiloidea

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Pompiloidea
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Ceropales maculata (Pompilidae)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Infraorder: Aculeata
Superfamily: Pompiloidea

Pompiloidea is a superfamily that includes spider wasps and velvet ants, among others, in the order Hymenoptera. There are 4 extant families in Pompiloidea. [1]

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Eusapyga verticalis

Families

The extinct family Burmusculidae, known from Cretaceous amber, is also placed here. [2] [3]

References

  1. ↑ Pilgrim, Erik M.; Von Dohlen, Carol D.; Pitts, James P. (2008). "Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily and novel relationships of its component families and subfamilies". Zoologica Scripta. 37 (5): 539–560. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00340.x. ISSN   0300-3256.
  2. ↑ Longfeng Li; Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn; Chungkun Shih; Daqing Li; Dong Ren (2020). "Two new rare wasps (Hymenoptera: Apocrita: Panguidae and Burmusculidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar". Cretaceous Research. 109: Article 104220. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104220
  3. ↑ Behrensmeyer, A. K.; Turner, A. "Superfamily Pompiloidea Latreille 1804 (wasp)". Fossilworks, Gateway to the Paleobiology Database.

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