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Family Chyphotidae - Chyphotid Wasps

Wingless and fast .. wasp? - Typhoctes peculiaris - female

Dark hairy Mojave pitfall wasp - Typhoctes - 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

Used to be treated in Bradynobaenidae or Mutillidae. The three families are not closely related. Bradynobaenidae do not occur in the Nearctic region(1)

Explanation of Names

Chyphotidae Bradley & Bequaert 1928

Numbers

48 spp. in 2 genera (45 Chyphotes, 3 Typhoctes) in our area(2)(3)(4)

Identification

Wing venation

Print References

(5)

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.	Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.

3.	Nomina Insecta Nearctica Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.

4.	A Review of the Typhoctinae Karl V. Krombein and Rudolf M. Schuster. 1957. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59(5): 209-232.

5.	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 29 October, 2023 - 3:02pm

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