Apoidea

Translingual

Apis mellifera

Etymology

From Apis +‎ -oidea.

Proper noun

Apoidea

A taxonomic superfamily within the order Hymenoptera – the bees and some wasps.

Usage notes

Wasps in this group were previously collected in the now obsolete superfamily Sphecoidea (synonymous with the series Spheciformes), which grouping is, however, paraphyletic. Bees are now thought to have descended from wasps from the family Crabronidae.

Hypernyms

(superfamily): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Holometabola - superorder; Hymenoptera - order; Apocrita - suborder

Hyponyms

(superfamily): Ampulicidae (cockroach wasps), Andrenidae, Apidae (many bees, including honey bees), Colletidae (masked bees, miner bees and plasterer bees), Crabronidae (some wasps), Halictidae (sweat bees), Heterogynaidae (certain wasps), Megachilidae, Melittidae, Sphecidae (thread-waisted wasps), Stenotritidae (families)
- †Angarosphecidae, †Paleomelittidae (extinct families)

References

Apoidea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Apoidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Apoidea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Apoidea at the Tree of Life Web Project
Apoidea on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

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