Bradynobaenidae

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
Apterogyna female, Namibia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Tiphioidea
Family: Bradynobaenidae
Genera

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Taxonomy

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:

Subfamily Apterogyninae

  • Apterogyna Latreille, 1809
  • Gynecaptera Skorikov, 1935
  • Macroocula Panfilov, 1954[3]
  • Micatagla Argaman, 1994 (at least 54 living species per Gadallah, et al., 2019)

Subfamily Bradynobaeninae

  • Bradynobaenus Spinola, 1851

Genera placed in Chyphotidae

Five genera were transferred to Chyphotidae and are no longer considered members of Bradynobaenidae:[4]

  • Chyphotes Blake, 1886
  • Eotilla Schuster, 1949
  • Prototilla Schuster, 1949
  • Typhoctes Ashmead, 1899
  • Typhoctoides Brothers, 1974

References

  1. Pilgrim, E.; von Dohlen, C.; Pitts, J. (2008). "Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily and novel relationships of its component families and subfamilies". Zoologica Scripta. 37 (5): 539–560. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00340.x. S2CID 85905070.
  2. Johnson, B.R.; et al. (2013). "Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps". Current Biology. 23 (20): 2058–2062. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.08.050. PMID 24094856.
  3. Soliman, Ahmed M.; Gadallah, Neveen S.; Al Dhafer, Hathal Mohammed (2018). "An illustrated key to the Saudi Arabian species of the genus Macroocula Panfilov, 1954, with the description of a new species and the previously unknown female of M. andreai Pagliano". ZooKeys (742): 35–56. doi:10.3897/zookeys.742.22854. PMC 5904544. PMID 29670430. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  4. Torréns, Javier; Fidalgo, Patricio; Roig-Alsina, Arturo; Brothers, Dennis J (2014). "Review of the genus Eotilla Schuster, 1949 (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Typhoctinae: Eotillini) and description of new species from Argentina". Zootaxa. 3878 (1): 1–18. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3878.1.1.


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