Pompiloidea is a superfamily that includes spider wasps and velvet ants, among others, in the order Hymenoptera. There are 4 families in Pompiloidea.[1][2][3]
| Pompiloidea | |
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| Dasymutilla | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Infraorder: | Aculeata |
| Superfamily: | Pompiloidea |
Families
editThese four families belong to the superfamily Pompiloidea:[3]
- Mutillidae (velvet ants)
- Myrmosidae (myrmosid wasps)
- Pompilidae (spider wasps)
- Sapygidae (sapygid wasps)
The extinct family Burmusculidae, known from Cretaceous amber, is also placed here.[4]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "Pompiloidea Superfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- ^ a b Behrensmeyer, A. K.; Turner, A. "Superfamily Pompiloidea Latreille 1804 (wasp)". Fossilworks, Gateway to the Paleobiology Database.
- ^ 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
Further reading
edit- 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.
- 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.
- Sharkey, M.J.; Carpenter, J.M.; Vilhelmsen, L. (2012). "Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera". Cladistics. 28: 80–112. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.721.8852. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00366.x. ISSN 0748-3007.
External links
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