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

Superfamily Vespoidea

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Print References · Works Cited
Multi-foundress association - Polistes fuscatus - female Polistes hunting on a sweet gum leaf - Polistes fuscatus Eumenes crucifera? - Euodynerus Monobia quadridens Vespid sp? - Ancistrocerus unifasciatus - female Lobed Mason Wasp - Ancistrocerus capra - female wasp Ancistrocerus lutonidus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
paraphyletic group (unlike other aculeatan superfamilies used in the Guide)(1), with circumscription still under discussion
Print References
Pilgrim E.M., von Dohlen C.D., Pitts J.P. (2008) Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily and novel relationships of its component families and subfamilies. Zoologica Scripta 37: 539-560. (Full text)
Works Cited
1.Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera
Sharkey M.J., Carpenter J.M., Vilhelmsen L., et al. 2012. Cladistics 28: 80―112.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 June, 2007 - 7:32am
Additional contributions by cotinis, josephfortier, Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, waspGeorge, v belov, Abigail Parker
Last updated 2 August, 2023 - 2:55pm

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