The Bradynobaenidae are a family of wasps similar to the Mutillidae, differing most visibly in the presence, in females, of a suture separating the pronotum from the mesonotum. These species are often found in arid regions.
Bradynobaenidae | |
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Apterogyna female, Namibia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Superfamily: | Tiphioidea |
Family: | Bradynobaenidae |
Genera | |
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Taxonomy
editRecent classifications (beginning in 2008) remove two of the constituent subfamilies, both from the New World, to a separate family Chyphotidae, thus restricting true bradynobaenids to the Old World.[1][2]
The retained genera are classified as follows:
Subfamily Apterogyninae
edit- Apterogyna Latreille, 1809
- Gynecaptera Skorikov, 1935
- Macroocula Panfilov, 1954[3]
- Micatagla Argaman, 1994 (at least 54 living species per Gadallah, et al., 2019)
Subfamily Bradynobaeninae
edit- Bradynobaenus Spinola, 1851
Genera placed in Chyphotidae
editFive genera were transferred to Chyphotidae and are no longer considered members of Bradynobaenidae:[4]
- Chyphotes Blake, 1886
- Eotilla Schuster, 1949
- Prototilla Schuster, 1949
- Typhoctes Ashmead, 1899
- Typhoctoides Brothers, 1974
References
edit- ^ Pilgrim, E.; von Dohlen, C.; Pitts, J. (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. S2CID 85905070.
- ^ Johnson, B.R.; et al. (2013). "Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps". Current Biology. 23 (20): 2058–2062. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.08.050. PMID 24094856.
- ^ Soliman, Ahmed M.; Gadallah, Neveen S.; Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed (2018). "An illustrated key to the Saudi Arabian species of the genus Macroocula Panfilov, 1954, with the description of a new species and the previously unknown female of M. andreai Pagliano". ZooKeys (742): 35–56. doi:10.3897/zookeys.742.22854. PMC 5904544. PMID 29670430. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- ^ Torréns, Javier; Fidalgo, Patricio; Roig-Alsina, Arturo; Brothers, Dennis J (2014). "Review of the genus Eotilla Schuster, 1949 (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Typhoctinae: Eotillini) and description of new species from Argentina". Zootaxa. 3878 (1): 1–18. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3878.1.1. hdl:11336/29726.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Bradynobaenidae.
- "Bradynobaenidae". Tree of Life Web Project. March 19, 2004. Retrieved October 8, 2010.