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

Family Chyphotidae - Chyphotid Wasps

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
Chyphotes? - Chyphotes - female Wingless and fast .. wasp? - Typhoctes peculiaris - female Is this a wasp? - Chyphotes - female Chyphotes - male Chyphotes - male Male, Chyphotes? - Chyphotes - male Male, Chyphotes? - Chyphotes - male Brachycistidinae sp.? - Chyphotes - male
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 Thynnoidea
Family Chyphotidae (Chyphotid Wasps)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Previously considered a part of Bradynobaenidae, and before that, Mutillidae. These three families are not closely related. Bradynobaenidae sensu stricto do not occur in the Nearctic region (S. America, Afrotropics, Palaearctic).(1)
Explanation of Names
Chyphotidae Bradley & Bequaert 1928
Numbers
51 spp. in 2 genera (47 in Chyphotes, 4 in Typhoctes) in our area(2)
See Also
Brachycistidinae · Mutillidae · Myrmosidae
Print References
(3)
Works Cited
1.Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily...
Pilgrim E.M., von Dohlen C.D., Pitts J.P. 2008. Zoologica Scripta 37: 539–560.
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
3.Historical biogeography and natural history of nocturnal wasps in the southwestern deserts... PhD dissertation
Sadler E.A. 2018. Utah State U. All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 6966. 221 pp.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 15 September, 2006 - 8:23pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, waspGeorge, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 31 August, 2023 - 5:05am

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