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Chrysidoidea
Temporal range: Barremian–recent
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Chrysis viridula
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Infraorder:
Aculeata
Superfamily:
Chrysidoidea Latreille, 1802
Families
Bethylidae
Chrysididae
Dryinidae
Embolemidae
†Falsiformicidae
†Plumalexiidae
Plumariidae
Sclerogibbidae
Scolebythidae
†Radiophronidae
Wikispecies has information related to Chrysidoidea.
The superfamily Chrysidoidea is a very large cosmopolitan group (some 6,000 described species, and many more undescribed) [citation needed], all of which are parasitoids or cleptoparasites of other insects. There are three large, common families (Bethylidae, Chrysididae, and Dryinidae) and four small, rare families (Embolemidae, Plumariidae, Sclerogibbidae, and Scolebythidae). Most species are small (7 mm or less), almost never exceeding 15 mm. This superfamily is traditionally considered to be the basal taxon within the Aculeata, and, as such, some species can sting, though the venom is harmless to humans.
Members of the families Dryinidae and Embolemidae are the only parasitoids among the Hymenoptera to have a life cycle in which the wasp larva begins its life inside the body of the host, and then later forms a sac (called a thylacium) that protrudes out of the host's abdomen. The closely related family Sclerogibbidae contains more traditional ectoparasitoids, attacking the nymphs of webspinners.
The extinct, monotypic family Plumalexiidae was described in 2011 from fossils preserved in Turonian age New Jersey amber.[1]
^Brothers, Denis J. (2011). "A new Late Cretaceous family of Hymenoptera, and phylogeny of the Plumariidae and Chrysidoidea (Aculeata)" (PDF). ZooKeys (130): 515–542. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1591. PMC 3260779. PMID 22259297.
Wikispecies has information related to Chrysidoidea. The superfamily Chrysidoidea is a very large cosmopolitan group (some 6,000 described species, and...
Baltic amber, with revision of two fossil Chrysididae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea)". Annales de Paléontologie. 110 (3). 102682. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2024...
Melittidae Family Stenotritidae Family Sphecidae (digger wasps) Superfamily Chrysidoidea Family Bethylidae Family Chrysididae (cuckoo wasps) Family Dryinidae...
the superfamily Chrysidoidea. As a family, their biology ranges between parasitoid wasps and hunting wasps. Like most of the Chrysidoidea, the Bethylidae...
Broad Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - aculeates (Apoidea, Chrysidoidea and Vespoidea) Biodivers Data J. 2016; (4): e8050. Published online 2016...
evaluation and parsimony, with description of a new fossil family of Chrysidoidea". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 201: 57–85. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad113...
Revision of rock fossils of Dryinidae and Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Zootaxa 2499:21-38 Perkovsky, Evgeny E.; Olmi, Massimo; Müller, Patrick;...
22,000 Chalcidoidea, 5,500 Vespoidea, 4,000 Platygastroidea, 3,000 Chrysidoidea, 2,300 Cynipoidea, and many smaller families. These often have remarkable...
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