Chyphotidae

The Chyphotidae 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 found primarily in arid regions in the southwestern United States and adjacent regions in Mexico.

Chyphotidae
Chyphotes male, Arizona
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Thynnoidea
Family: Chyphotidae
Genera

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Taxonomy

Recent classifications of Vespoidea sensu lato (beginning in 2008) removed two of the subfamilies formerly placed in the family Bradynobaenidae to a separate family Chyphotidae, thus restricting true bradynobaenids to the Old World, with chyphotids being restricted to the New World.[1][2]

The genera are classified as follows:[3]

Subfamily Chyphotinae
  • Chyphotes Blake, 1886

Tribe Eotillini
  • Eotilla Schuster, 1949
  • Prototilla Schuster, 1949

Tribe Typhoctini
  • 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. 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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