Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Vespoidea | Phylum Arthropoda Order Hymenoptera Rank Family | |
Similar Thynnidae, Sierolomorphidae, Bradynobaenidae, Sclerogibbidae, Scolebythidae | ||
The Myrmosidae are a small family of wasps very similar to the Mutillidae. As in mutillids, females are flightless, and are kleptoparasites in the nests of fossorial bees and wasps.
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Taxonomy
Recent classifications of Vespoidea (beginning in 2008) concluded that the family Mutillidae contained one subfamily that was unrelated to the remainder, and this subfamily was removed to form a separate family Myrmosidae. Myrmosids can be readily distinguished from mutillids by the lack of abdominal "felt lines" in both sexes, and the retention of a distinct pronotum in females (pronotum fused to metanotum in mutillids).
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Myrmosidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA