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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps » Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets (Vespoidea)

Superfamily Vespoidea - Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Internet References · Works Cited
orange/black bee - Timulla grotei Yellow Jacket - Euodynerus foraminatus - female Wasp - Polistes aurifer - male Formicidae 6.19.09 01 - Leptothorax muscorum night ants - Myrmecocystus Wasp Q Wasp 6 on Heliotropium amplexicaule - Campsomeris quadrimaculata Camponotus americanus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea (Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
paraphyletic group (unlike other aculeatan superfamilies used in the Guide)(1)
Identification
OVERVIEW OF FAMILIES

Family Bradynobaenidae - Bradynobaenid Wasps


Family Formicidae - Ants


Family Mutillidae – Velvet Ants
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Family Myrmosidae
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Family Pompilidae – Spider Wasps


Family Rhopalosomatidae - Rhopalosomatid Wasps
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Family Sapygidae - Sapygid Wasps


Family Scoliidae - Scoliid Wasps


Family Sierolomorphidae - Sierolomorphid Wasps


Family Tiphiidae - Tiphiid Wasps


Family Vespidae - Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps
Internet References
Tree of Life
Works Cited
1.Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera
By Sharkey M.J., Carpenter J.M., Vilhelmsen L., et al.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 June, 2007 - 7:32am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, v belov, Abigail Parker
Last updated 29 February, 2012 - 4:56am

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