Psenini

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Psenini
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Crabronidae
Subfamily: Pemphredoninae
Tribe: Psenini
A. Costa, 1858

Psenini is a tribe of aphid wasps in the family Crabronidae. There are about 11 genera and at least 460 described species in Psenini. [1] [2] [3]

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Psen erythropoda

In some recent phylogenetic analyses, this group together with the tribe Odontosphecini is considered to be the family Psenidae, treated as the sister lineage to the family Ammoplanidae and no longer included within Pemphredonidae, so as to keep families monophyletic. [4]

Genera

These 11 genera belong to the tribe Psenini:

Data sources: i = ITIS, [1] c = Catalogue of Life, [5] g = GBIF, [6] b = Bugguide.net [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Psenini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  2. 1 2 "Psenini tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  3. "Psenini Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  4. Manuela Sann, Oliver Niehuis, Ralph S. Peters, Christoph Mayer, Alexey Kozlov, Lars Podsiadlowski, Sarah Bank, Karen Meusemann, Bernhard Misof, Christoph Bleidorn, and Michael Ohl (2018) Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18:71. doi:10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8
  5. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  6. "GBIF" . Retrieved 2018-03-26.

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