Thynnoidea

Thynnoidea
female Chyphotes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Infraorder:	Aculeata
Superfamily:	Thynnoidea

Thynnoidea is a superfamily of hymenopterans in the order Hymenoptera. There are 2 families and hundreds of described species in Thynnoidea. ^[1]

males of Myzinum quinquecinctum

Families

These two families belong to the superfamily Thynnoidea:

• Chyphotidae (chyphotid wasps)
• Thynnidae (thynnid wasps)

References

1. "Thynnoidea Superfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.

Further reading

• Aguiar, A.P.; Deans, A.R.; Engel, M.S.; Forshage, M.; et al. (2013). "Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang Z-Q (ed) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classif. and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa. 3703: 51–62. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.12 . ISSN   1175-5326.
• Goulet, H.; Huber, J., eds. (1993). Hymenoptera of the world: an identification guide to families. Agriculture Canada Publication 1894/E.
• Sharkey, M.J.; Carpenter, J.M.; Vilhelmsen, L. (2012). "Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera". Cladistics. 28 (1): 80–112. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00366.x . ISSN   0748-3007. PMID   34861753. S2CID   33628659.

External links

• Media related to Thynnoidea at Wikimedia Commons