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Stephanoidea

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Superfamily of wasps

Stephanoidea
Temporal range: Early Jurassic–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Foenatopus albomaculatus
Aptenoperissus burmanicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Stephanoidea
Leach, 1815
Families

Stephanoidea is a superfamily of parasitic wasps within the Apocrita; it includes only one living family, Stephanidae (350 living species mid Cretaceous-recent), as well as the extinct families Ephialtitidae (89 species, Early Jurassic-mid Cretaceous), Aptenoperissidae (8 species, mid Cretaceous, Burmese amber), Myanmarinidae (4 species, mid Cretaceous, Burmese amber) and Ohlhoffiidae (4 species, Early-mid Cretaceous).

References

  1. Jouault, Corentin; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Perrichot, Vincent (2021-01-01). "Ohlhoffiidae, a new Cretaceous family of basal parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea)". Cretaceous Research. 117: 104635. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104635. ISSN 0195-6671.
Taxon identifiers
Stephanoidea
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