BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)

PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)

ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

HEXAPODA
(hexapods)

INSECTA
(insects)

PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)

Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)

Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)

HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)

SPHECOIDEA
(a superfamily of solitary wasps)

Sphecoidea
is also a member of:

Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

SPHECOIDEA (a superfamily of solitary wasps)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon

Family

SPHECIDAE (a family of solitary wasps)

11

34

46

1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Richards, O.W., 1980	Scolioidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea
Yeo, P.F., & Corbet, S.A., 1995	Solitary Wasps

SPHECOIDEA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

INSECTA
(insects)

HYMENOPTERA
(bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 139 feeding and other relationships of SPHECOIDEA (a superfamily of solitary wasps)

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