Biology:Mellinidae

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Short description: Family of wasps

Mellinidae
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Mellinus arvensis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Apoidea
Family: Mellinidae
Latreille, 1802
Genera[1]

Mellinidae is a small family of wasps, comprising 17 described species in two genera. This group has traditionally been treated as a subfamily within Crabronidae (Mellininae), but recent phylogenomic studies have shown it to be a distinct family.[2]

References

  1. van Noort, S (2023). "Mellinidae". Iziko Museums of South Africa. http://www.waspweb.org/apoidea/Mellinidae/Classification/index.htm. 
  2. Sann, Manuela; Niehuis, Oliver; Peters, Ralph S.; Mayer, Christoph; Kozlov, Alexey; Podsiadlowski, Lars; Bank, Sarah; Meusemann, Karen et al. (2018-05-18). "Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees" (in en). BMC Evolutionary Biology 18 (1): 71. doi:10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8. ISSN 1471-2148. PMID 29776336. PMC 5960199. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8. 

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