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Wonderful World of Wasps

Exhibition Iziko South African Museum

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera)

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The above phylogeny depicts the evolutionary relationships of the different Hymenoptera groups. The terminal branches mostly end at superfamily level (ending in -oidea). Each superfamily comprises a number of families (ending in -idae), which are not depicted in this diagram, except for the families of Vespoidea and the suborders of Apoidea to specifically show the respective evolutionary relationships of ants and bees.


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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