Stephanoidea is a superfamily of parasitic wasps within the

Apocrita Apocrita is a suborder of insects in the order Hymenoptera. It includes wasps, bees, and ants, and consists of many families. It contains the most advanced hymenopterans and is distinguished from Symphyta by the narrow "waist" ( petiole) formed ...

, it includes only one living family,

Stephanidae The Stephanidae, sometimes called crown wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps. They are the only living members of the superfamily Stephanoidea. Stephanidae has at least 345 living species in 11 genera. The family is considered cosmopolitan in ...

(350 living species mid Cretaceous-recent), as well as the extinct families Ephialtitidae (89 species, Early Jurassic-mid Cretaceous),

Aptenoperissidae ''Aptenoperissus'' is a genus of extinct wasp with eight described species, placed into the monotypic family Aptenoperissidae. The type species ''Aptenoperissus burmanicus'' resembles a mix between a grasshopper, an ant, and a wasp. It was descr ...

(8 species, mid Cretaceous,

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...

), Myanmarinidae (4 species, mid Cretaceous, Burmese amber) and Ohlhoffiidae (4 species, Early-mid Cretaceous).

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15260261 Apocrita Insect superfamilies