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Family of wasps From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bradynobaenidae are a family of wasps similar to the Mutillidae, differing most visibly in the presence, in females, of a suture separating the pronotum from the mesonotum. These species are often found in arid regions.
Bradynobaenidae | |
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Apterogyna female, Namibia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Superfamily: | Tiphioidea |
Family: | Bradynobaenidae |
Genera | |
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Recent classifications (beginning in 2008) remove two of the constituent subfamilies, both from the New World, to a separate family Chyphotidae, thus restricting true bradynobaenids to the Old World.[1][2]
The retained genera are classified as follows:
Five genera were transferred to Chyphotidae and are no longer considered members of Bradynobaenidae:[4]
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