Stephanoidea
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| Stephanoidea Temporal range:
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| Foenatopus albomaculatus | |
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| Aptenoperissus burmanicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Superfamily: | Stephanoidea Leach, 1815 |
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Stephanoidea is a superfamily of parasitic wasps within the Apocrita; it includes only one living family, Stephanidae (350 living species mid Cretaceous-recent), as well as the extinct families Ephialtitidae (89 species, Early Jurassic-mid Cretaceous), Aptenoperissidae (8 species, mid Cretaceous, Burmese amber), Myanmarinidae (4 species, mid Cretaceous, Burmese amber) and Ohlhoffiidae (4 species, Early-mid Cretaceous).[1]
References
- ^ Jouault, Corentin; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Perrichot, Vincent (2021-01-01). "Ohlhoffiidae, a new Cretaceous family of basal parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea)". Cretaceous Research. 117: 104635. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104635. ISSN 0195-6671.